Facing Our Challenges Quotes

#1. By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

John Templeton

#2. Courage is the facing of a challenge with a healthy fear, not being fearless.

Les Stroud

#3. It is sometimes hard to be a family.

Maurice Sendak

#4. Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

Viktor E. Frankl

#5. You can take your fitness seriously, but not yourself. That's the most difficult part: not to relax. That's the most difficult challenge I'm facing every fight.

Wladimir Klitschko

#6. People often ask why I remain so optimistic, even in the face of the complex challenges we are facing in the Jewish world, in Israel and beyond. It's because I am so impressed and inspired by the young people I meet.

Lynn Schusterman

#7. I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

Nelson Mandela

#8. Nobody gets through life without facing challenges. What's important is how we handle them. Tough times can be excellent opportunities to grow and become a better person.

Sandra Vischer

#9. Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

David Suzuki

#10. In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

Peter Senge

#11. No matter what challenge you're facing or situation you're going through, always remember this. You are bigger, stronger, greater, more significant, more powerful, more resilient, and more important than any of your problems.

Clifton Anderson

#12. Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water.

Ann Bancroft

#13. Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.

Bernardino Leon

#14. Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.

Vimala Thakar

#15. The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

Michael Gove

#16. I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.

David Attenborough

#17. Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#18. This goes back to the main challenge we are facing, because Europe at the moment is not competitive. We have many imbalances and my big worry is that we will slow down in Europe in terms of fiscal consolidations and reforms, whilst we have to step up ...

Mark Rutte

#19. Day after day, the globalization of terrorism becomes more evident. This is the one of the biggest challenges we are facing. We must stand with the innocent people around the world who are suffering or have lost their loved ones as a result of terrorism.

Widad Akreyi

#20. If you are presently facing significant challenges in your life, trust in the Lord! Be an aggressive responder who lives with alert expectancy!

Richard Blackaby

#21. Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers.I felt a dormlike camaraderie in the burn unit, since each of us knew the challenges we were facing like no one else could, and therefore how meaningful each triumph was.

Stephanie Nielson

#22. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

Richard Rogers

#23. My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people

Patrice Motsepe

#24. When we are weak, we can still be strong. When we're under the greatest stress and facing the greatest challenges, it may be the best day of our lives, for God is working to make us into the people he wants us to be.

Casey Treat

#25. Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Duncan Hunter

#26. Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

Barack Obama

#27. We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today, climate change, into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future

Ban Ki-moon

#28. Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.

C.J. Mahaney

#29. I simply am going to look you in the eye and say that if the United States hopes to remain a major player among nations, facing challenges such as poverty, inadequate education, and global market competition, we're going to need to draw deeply from our entire talent pool, not just half of it.

Kathy Cloninger

#30. Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.

Bill Hybels

#31. Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

Barack Obama

#32. Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

Angela Merkel

#33. No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.

Andy Stanley

#34. Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

Johann Lamont

#35. The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. Writing a story no one else dares to say, sits outside my comfort zone, is one of the biggest challenges I'm facing as an author.

Veronica Purcell

#37. Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

James P. Krehbiel

#38. I think that Sarah Palin really missed the chance to educate the public on what some of the challenges her son is actually facing.

Jon Soltz

#39. I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

Troy Polamalu

#40. Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race

Tony Blair

#41. Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you

Munia Khan

#42. How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

David Blunkett

#43. Having a really good partner, whether it's a good friend, someone in your family or a spouse, is always the greatest thing to have when you have a new challenge that you're facing.

Anousheh Ansari

#44. Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!

Pope Francis

#45. We can smile when facing a challenge, if we believe in ourselves that we won't back down.

Ellen J. Barrier

#46. Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.

Justin Trudeau

#47. If it is going to kill you," Enso Roshi says, "then let it kill you.

T. Scott McLeod

#48. The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

Nelson Mandela

#49. It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system.

Austan Goolsbee

#50. Don't complain if your're facing hard moments in life. Challenge yourself to face it, challenge yourself to beat it.

Jayson Engay