37 Quotes About Overcoming Challenges in Business

The biggest challenge in business is learning how to overcome it. These quotes about overcoming challenges in business will bring you the encouragement and strength you need to surpass any barriers.

“A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.”

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.”

“Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.”

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

“Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”

“But that’s the challenge – to change the system more than it changes you.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”

“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”

“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.”

“Fear has its use, but cowardice has none.”

“Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.”

“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”

“Great fear is concealed under daring.”

“Hope and change are hard-fought things.”

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked 20 hours every day and only slept four hours–and thrived on it.”

“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

“Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.”

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

“Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!”

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”

“You have power over your mind–not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

How to overcome business obstacles and turn them into opportunities requires patience and strategies.