Quotes About Challenge

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Some days the dragon wins.

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.