Quotes About Challenge

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The four most miserable years of my life . . .

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

These are the times that try men's souls.

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done.

Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.

The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst."

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.