Quotes About Challenge

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

Business is more exciting than any game.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

The first step is the hardest.

Every beginning is hard.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm.

Wisdom is harder to do than it is to know.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

You have to erect a fence and say, "Okay, scale this."

The world is more exacting than God himself.

Hunting God is a great adventure.

We have a tried and tested system of government that, in being so flexible, exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.