Quotes About Challenge

All things are difficult before they are easy.

No garden is without its weeds

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

develop the habit of employing one of several "consider the opposite" strategies. We can learn to ask ourselves, for example, "Suppose the exact opposite had occurred. Would I consider that outcome to be supportive of my belief as well?" Alternatively, we can ask, "How would someone who does not believe the way I do explain this result?"

I would call that field of play--the place in which humans test their natural limits and often break them--science.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.

writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

I'd rather face a thousand fights, Ferdia, than this fight with you.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia.

He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. Of course, he was descending.… But he was still sane. He had chosen his course and now he was following it.

In 1787, Benjamin Franklin was supposedly asked what would emerge from the Constitutional Convention being held in Philadelphia. "A republic," Franklin answered, "if you can keep it." Today, the bigger challenge is to find anyone who knows what a republic actually is.

Conspiracy theorists manipulate all tangible evidence to fit their explanation, but worse, they will also point to the absence of evidence as even stronger confirmation. After all, what better sign of a really effective conspiracy is there than a complete lack of any trace that the conspiracy exists? Facts, the absence of facts, contradictory facts: everything is proof. Nothing can ever challenge the underlying belief. These