Challenges in life come and go. And each challenge met can either be an opportunity or a learning experience. So don’t let the difficult situations bring you down. You can inspire yourself with these 131 quotes about challenges.
Quotes About Challenges
1. Always face your challenges head on and make them your strengths. – David Kassan
2. Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. – Bernice Johnson Reagon
3. Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch – what make you go beyond the norm. – Cicely Tyson
4. You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger. – John C. Maxwell
5. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. – George S. Patton
6. It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. – Muhammad Ali
7. As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose. – Susan L. Taylor
8. To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. – Mike Kafka
9. There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. – William Halsey
10. If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. – Pat Riley
11. Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges. – Carlos Castaneda
12. The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead. – Bette Davis
13. You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish. – Bernie Mac
14. When we are able to receive life’s challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing. – Brenda Shoshanna
15. I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life. – Miranda Kerr
16. When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won’t end up in a situation that you regret later on. – Danica McKellar
17. You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive. – Jerry Seinfeld
18. My childhood had its challenges, like everyone’s. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined. – Sam Taylor-Wood
19. It’s the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it’s running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business. – Mark Udall
20. Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn. – Andy Andrews
21. To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up. – Dalai Lama
22. He who doesn’t want to face his challenges shall always face challenges! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
23. A life filled with vicissitudes, uncertainty, and hard lessons provides us with skills to better approach new challenges that come along. – Vivian Eisenecher
24. We must allow ourselves to be adorned by lessons derived through hardships and challenges. – Tony Narams
25. Jesus didn’t waste time worrying. He had plenty to worry about if He chose to. It wasn’t a matter of ignoring His challenges. In fact, He spent a great deal of time praying these things through with His father. – Beth Beutler
26. Be the kind of person who dares to face life’s challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them. – Roy T. Bennett
27. When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. – Paulo Coelho
28. Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. – Roger Crawford
29. No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don’t advertise their woes and heartaches. But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars. – Richelle E. Goodrich
30. Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light. – Barbara Marciniak
31. If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future. – Jim Stovall
32. There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger. – Eric Bates
33. Those who overcome great challenges will be changed, and often in unexpected ways. For our struggles enter our lives as unwelcome guests, but they bring valuable gifts. And once the pain subsides, the gifts remain. These gifts are life’s true treasures, bought at great price, but cannot be acquired in any other way. – Steve Goodier
34. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Molière
35. Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation. – Bernie Siegel
36. The tests we face in life’s journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face. – Kemi Sogunle
37. Facing today’s challenges leads to achieving greatness tomorrow. – Farshad Asl
38. At times, you may find you are revisiting the same issue, lesson, or opportunity you experienced before. However, each time we come to the same crossroads, it is different. Life is not linear. I see it as an ascending spiral. Issues or challenges we face run vertically alongside the spiral. We move along the path of the spiral, and we will see reoccurring challenges and issues, but they really are different each time because we are different. – Melissa Heisler
39. I would like to say that what I fear are the challenges that stand in front of me, when in reality what I fear is the cowardice that lays within me. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
40. Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. – Iyanla Vanzant
41. Challenges are unique to every individual. What makes a challenge difficult or easy is the level of power inherent within it. Easy challenges do not require a great deal of effort, and therefore their yields are poor. Difficult challenges, on the other hand, require a great deal of effort, and in exercising the will in order to conquer them, they yield magnificent gifts of power. – Theun Mares
42. All of life is a test and we all have our challenges to meet. – Marjory Sheba
43. Your situation may seem to look permanent and you may find massive mountains soaring against you but you have the power to bring these mountains down low to bring forth change and progress which were unbearable yesterday. – Patricia Dsouza
44. We live at the edge of positivity and keep drifting into the negative world the moment we stumble or encounter a little challenge. We have to train our emotions to accept the challenges of life and stop blaming those who didn’t introduce us to the positive aspects. – Balroop Singh
45. We all face different challenges in life. But we all have an equal choice to move forward. – Brittany Burgunder
46. Every day you grow stronger and the challenges become easier. Keep going. – Avina Celeste
47. In the face of great challenges, you can choose to live reactively as a victim, or choose to proactively take control, with awareness and accountability. – Isaac Lidsky
48. It’s through challenges that winners’ thoughts are invoked. Through challenges, winners are inspired to think. Through challenges winners turn their dreams into reality. Through challenges, winners begin to lead. Through challenges, winners set forth towards victory, for nothing is sweeter than winning, especially when the odds are stacked against them. – Kevin Abdulrahman
49. The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones. – Bamigboye Olurotimi
50. Have the courage to rise from the challenges of life like a phoenix from the flames or you’ll get lost in the ashes of despair, pain, and regret. – Nanette Mathews
51. A life without challenges isn’t alive. – Ben Tolosa
52. When someone has had an exceptionally challenging or difficult earthly life, those challenges are often by design. Our Master will test those who are ready to expand. The struggles are designed to increase one’s strength and to be a springboard into higher realms. – Kate McGahan
53. Challenges are the core of life’s nuclear reactor, the uranium rods are your decisions and the energy generated is your success. – Utkal Tripathy
54. I never see problems. I always see challenges. By definition, a problem is something unwelcome or harmful, whereas a challenge is a contest. Contests can be won; and, I love winning. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
55. The depth of your challenges will determine the heights of your success in life. – Bernard Kelvin Clive
56. Challenges stimulate courage. – Lailah Gifty Akita
57. Challenges will come, but success is proof of challenges conquered and difficulties overcome. – Chinonye J. Chidolue
58. Challenges that go along with our desires are simply there to make sure we are ready and really want what we have asked for. We are all instruments of the divine, the possibilities within us are endless. Putting expectations aside, we allow ourselves room to really experience these miracles as they unfold. – Camille Lucy
59. Don’t be afraid of challenges. Let them take you somewhere new. – Sira Masetti
60. Just because you stumbled a few times in the past doesn’t mean you won’t overcome. Realize that adversity and challenges arise, but you are made stronger. Embrace the day. Seize the moment. Your time is now. – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
61. Sometimes, our greatest obstacles are breathtakingly beautiful challenges. Rise to the challenge! – Russell Anthony Gibbs
62. The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you’ll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices. – Jeanette Coron
63. What’s usual for us may not be the same for everyone. I’m inspired by lives and stories of all those amazing people who overcome extraordinary challenges each day to live what we see as an ordinary life. – Sharad Vivek Sagar
64. People do not only talk about successes, they talk about people who overcame their challenges or disabilities. Others are inspired when you are able to overcome your challenges. – Jaya Ramachandran
65. Your character is formed by the challenges you face and overcome. – Nick Vujicic
66. Gradually I learned to cease looking upon challenges as difficulties and began to see tense situations as opportunities to put my growing love to use. – Eknath Easwaran
67. Remember all the challenges that you have overcome in the past and take pride in your success. You are a fighter and you know it. This will give you more faith that you can handle whatever is yet to come. – Ashley Rosebloom
68. Reframe. Challenges are not flashing danger signs, but spectacular opportunities to grow faster and smarter. – Theodore Newton Vail Joanna Barsh
69. Challenge is what forces evolution to happen, and with these challenges there is change. Change is an inevitable necessity for growth. – Lily Sanders
70. Challenges are an opportunity to test you and rise to the next level. – Angelica Montrose
71. The momentary challenges, the delays, the minor frustrations of this day will yield great benefit in the future, if only we learn to remain strong and peaceful through them. – Joshua DuBois
72. Your challenges will be unique to you, and there’s no way anyone else in this world, even a great coach, can always tell you what’s best for your life. – Derek Doepker
73. Accept the challenges of life and you’ll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living . . . it’s merely a state of mind. – Mychal Wynn
74. Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character. – Les Brown
75. Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand. – Oprah Winfrey
76. Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. – Brian Tracy
77. I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don’t work out, that’s when I’ve really learned. – Carol Burnett
78. Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides. – Steve Maraboli
79. Challenges are meant to be met and overcome. – Liu Xiang
80. Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves. – Robert Rodriguez
81. Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of how you learn to overcome them and use them to your advantage. – Celestine Chua
82. Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction. – Brendon Burchard
83. I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don’t always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude. – Jennifer Hyman
84. You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages. – Michelle Obama
85. No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them. – Alana Stewart
86. Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life. – Joni Eareckson Tada
87. We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and conquer them. – Victoria Arlen
88. The more you practice tolerating discomfort, the more confidence you’ll gain in your ability to accept new challenges. – Amy Morin
89. Sometimes the hurdles aren’t really hurdles at all. They’re welcome challenges, tests. – Paul Walker
90. There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one. – Mia Hamm
91. Having challenges in your life open doors for you. – Payal Kadakia
92. Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too. – Josh Turner
93. The more challenges that are thrown at you, the more reward there is on the other side because you surprise yourself and say, ‘Wow, these are things I didn’t realize I was capable of.’ – Matt Czuchry
94. Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill. – Jen Sincero
95. You can’t let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing. – Danny Meyer
96. Without the ambition to raise oneself to life’s challenges, growth and innovation would never happen. – Mark Goulston
97. Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word. – Billy Graham
98. You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative. – Norah O’Donnell
99. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn – we wouldn’t be who we are without them. – Sean Combs
100. Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted. – Roger Ebert
101. It’s a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. – Jeff Bridges
102. Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we’ll be able to motivate people to do more with their life. – Martina Navratilova
103. If you don’t learn constantly, you don’t grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh. – Iris Apfel
104. We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them. – Amy Purdy
105. You come up against challenges in life, and it’s how you deal with them that defines you. – Harry Kane
106. I always believe there is no fun without challenges. – S. Sreesanth
107. There’s challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up. – Bernard Sumner
108. We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges. – Tim Berners-Lee
109. You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down. – Chanda Kochhar
110. If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined. – Ralph Marston
111. The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what’s good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days. – Victoria Osteen
112. We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges. – Tamron Hall
113. I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth. – Marianne Williamson
114. If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way. – Ratan Tata
115. Faith in God… produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day. – Kirk Cameron
116. Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently. – Daryn Kagan
117. I think we have challenges, but we have so many opportunities to get it right. I like it when we have a little bit of a headwind. The kite actually lifts when you have a headwind and doesn’t when there is lift from the back. – Borje Ekholm
118. Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time. – Leon Panetta
119. There is good in everything; it’s just how you choose to look at it. Everything that’s worth it has a price. For me to be a model – I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow. – Gisele Bundchen
120. You don’t have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity. – Yemi Osinbajo
121. Everybody has their challenges; I couldn’t say that we have more challenges than other people, they’re just different. – Tracy Pollan
122. I don’t have anything in particular to achieve; I don’t want to go any particular direction. I just want to take up the challenges of life as we go along. – Amitabh Bachchan
123. I’m a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we’re going to encounter in our own period of service. – Thomas S. Monson
124. Everyone has their challenges. – Wentworth Miller
125. Every new conversation, every new relationship, brings new challenges and opportunities for honest expression. – Mark Manson
126. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer. – Upton Sinclair
127. The tragedies of our past are the stepping stones for us to reach the happy endings of our tomorrows. Guilt is not going to help you become a better person. Acceptance will. – Yara Greathouse
128. Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process. – April Mae Monterrosa
129. A lot of people don’t see the obstacles, struggles, and challenges that come as payments for success, that’s why they tend to see successful people as individuals who are very lucky in life. – Edmond Mbiaka
130. Sometimes we’re caught off guard and asked to do something we may not want to do, something outside our comfort zone—a favor, a challenge. We could be mocked or ridiculed. Or maybe we’ll doubt ourselves, but we can’t let fear rule. Sometimes in life, we have to dance. – Jake Byrne
131. There are no laurels in life, just new challenges. – Katharine Hepburn