Challenges Quotes
God is still around. One day, you're going to need him. The problems of life will begin to overwhelm you; disappointments will begin to beat upon the door of your life like a tidal wave. And if you don't have a deep and patient faith, you aren't going to be able to make it. I know this from my own experience.
I do not wish to minimize the complexity of the problems to be faced in achieving disarmament and peace. But we shall not have the courage, the insight, to deal with such matters unless we are prepared to undergo a mental and spiritual change.
The world in which we live is geographically one. The great challenge now is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.
I must admit to you that there are still jail cells waiting for us, and dark and difficult moments. But if we will go on with the faith that nonviolence and its power can transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows, we will be able to change all of these conditions.
Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles.
There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.
Arnold Toynbee has said that some twenty-six civilizations have risen upon the face of the earth. Almost all of them have descended into the junk heaps of destruction. The decline and fall of these civilizations, according to Toynbee, was not caused by external invasions but by internal decay. They failed to respond creatively to the challenges impinging upon them.
Solutions to the complex plight of the Negro will not be easy. This does not signify that they are impossible. Recognizing these complexities as challenges rather than as obstacles, we will make progress if we freely admit that we have no magic.
Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?
In life's steeplechase one must always jump the fences when they come.
Face to face, difficulties which appear really insuperable at a distance are very often removed altogether from our path.
Things do not get better by being let alone. Unless they are adjusted, they explode with shattering detonation.
Strength is granted to us all when we are needed to serve great causes.
It is like going up a mountain. Each successive peak appears in turn the summit, and yet there is always another pinnacle beyond.
One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.
Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.
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