Quotes About Challenge

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what's going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.