Quotes About Challenge

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

This story will never go down.

Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.

Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.

If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble.

All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

This guy put the suck in success.

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.

Somebodys said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do?