Quotes About Challenge

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to excel, to win.

PRINCIPLE 8 Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view. PRINCIPLE 9 Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. PRINCIPLE 10 Appeal to the nobler motives. PRINCIPLE 11 Dramatize your ideas. PRINCIPLE 12 Throw down a challenge.

I have known people," he said, "who succeeded because they had a rip-roaring good time conducting their business. Later, I saw those people change as the fun became work. The business had grown dull.

There is a Scandinavian saying which some of us might well take as a rallying cry for our lives: 'The north wind made the Vikings.' Wherever did we get the idea that secure and pleasant living, the absence of difficulty, and the comfort of ease, ever of themselves made people either good or happy?

perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.

I shirk not. I long for work. I pant for a life full of striving. I am no coward, to shrink before the rugged rush of the storm, nor even quail before the awful shadow of the Veil. But hearken, O Death! Is not this my life hard enough,—is not that dull land that stretches its sneering web about me cold enough,—is not all the world beyond these four little walls pitiless enough, but that thou must needs enter here,—thou, O Death?

Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine. But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them. Just how I would do it I could never decide: by reading law, by healing the sick, by telling the wonderful tales that swam in my head,—some way.

I. THE BLACK WORKER How black men, coming to America in the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteen and nineteenth centuries, became a central thread in the history of the United States, at once a challenge to its democracy and always an important part of its economic history and social development.

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an ordinary life.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

What if I don't like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

That's what life's all about Dolores, climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience.

comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable:

why would white dudes want to change things when they held all the cards?

It's as if the work on your canvas has a will of its own. When that happens, it can be quite exciting. But disturbing, too, when, as the painter, you are not in control of your painting.

The world is made of stairs; some go up and some go down. . . .

I celebrate art that shakes complacency by the shoulders and shouts, 'Wake up!

What if I don't like adventure?" I said. Ruth dragged over a kitchen chair and sat down facing me. "Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

busting his agates