Challenges Quote by Carol S. Dweck

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

— Naomi Wolf

We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and…

— Stanley Greenspan

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation…

— John Locke

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

— Daniel Dae Kim

Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been…

— Beatrice Wood

“Family conditions early in life cast a long shadow. That principle holds broadly, but with exceptions, and in this context they are numerous. The…

— Karl Alexander

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

— Joe Whitney

“Hundreds of studies have shown that children and adults recover more quickly when they realize that hardships aren’t entirely their fault, don’t affect every…

— Sheryl Sandberg

If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.

— Catherine Stock

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

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

— Rob Lowe

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

— Anonymous