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Quotes About Challenge

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
~ Colin Powell
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
~ Colin Powell
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
~ Colin Powell
Butch knew before he walked in that he was entering the lion's den, and he wasn't surprised when he got thrown out. Word quickly spread around the Pentagon, as it always does when things like that happen. Not long after I heard about it I ran into Butch in a hallway. As we walked along, I offered him comforting words. "Hey," he said quietly, "he don't pay me to give him happy talk.
~ Colin Powell
we can solve any problem.
~ Colin Powell
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
~ Colin R. Davis
This is one of the most urgent problems for civilized man. He has created civilization to give him security. Security for what? For boredom? His chief problem seems to be that most human beings need a certain amount of challenge, of external stimulus, to stop them from sinking into the blank stare and blank consciousness of the idiot.
~ Colin Wilson
A more damned crew hell never vomited," the Virginia Company president later said of them.
~ Colin Woodard
It's not the tragedy that can ruin you—it's your own attitude toward it. You can let adversity make or break you, Jason. It's up to you.
~ Colleen Coble
should we just ignore all of the tidy boxes?
~ Unknown
Dans les fins de mois, ce qui est le plus dur, c'est les trente derniers jours. The hardest part of ending each month is going through the last 30 days.
~ Coluche
Dans les fins de mois, ce qui est le plus dur, c'est les trente derniers jours. The hardest part of the end of each month is last thirty days.
~ Coluche
A child be one's greatest test of all.
~ Unknown
Can you see the task we have been set? The ultimate exploration is before us, waiting for its initiation.
~ Unknown
Could it be that this will be my greatest downfall?
~ Unknown
I always take a sudden dislike to those who want everything simple and easy.
~ Unknown
My mission shielded me from one kind of trouble and threw me into another.
~ Unknown
Perhaps this world is not ready for what I have to say…
~ Unknown
The hardest thing was to let Them and The Philosophy go from my complete control.
~ Unknown
The right way and the easiest are two entirely different paths.
~ Unknown
To become nothing is much more difficult than to become something.
~ Unknown
To not do this without conscious effort would be very hard I imagine.
~ Unknown
To stay atop of these such feats is one brave and endless yet rewardless task indeed.
~ Unknown
To step into shoes long since worn is a great task by any means, but to step into shoes never yet worn, well, that is a feat few have dared to embark upon.
~ Unknown