Quotes About Challenge

Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's, who'd once said, "When you see your competitor drowning, grab a fire hose and put it in his mouth.

as the Bible says, a smooth sea never made a good sailor. I believe that to this day.

The best way to meet any challenge is to be prepared for it.

the mind is a crucial line of defense against adversity.

By the way, I didn't win the 5000-meter race at the Olympics, but making the team and not winning is like going to the moon and stumbling over a rock and falling. So what? You're still on the moon.

Resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.

What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?

I think the difficulty with people who can't follow printed directions for knitting or anything else is that they try to understand them. They read the whole thing through and it doesn't make sense to them, so they start with a defeatist attitude.

A reasonable amount of danger is part of the price of living.

Adventure, free of actual risk, is hard to produce.

Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

If you think of the hardest thing for you to do and how much you resist it, then you're looking at your greatest lesson at the moment. Surrendering

Six Stars,' he exclaimed. 'Finding the right words is hard!

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other." "And between the two is the lump in the throat,

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

Gabri and I follow the way of Häagen Das. It's occasionally a rocky road.

Not everyone's an explorer, and not every explorer makes it back alive. That's why it takes so much courage.

The fault is here, but so is the solution. That's the grace.

Sometimes the only way up is down. Sometimes the only way forward is to back up.

Not everyone makes the boat, she thought.

I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

It was messy. Unruly. Risky. Scary. So much could go wrong. Failure was always close at hand. But so was brilliance.

Most of us are great with change, as long as it was our idea. But change imposed from the outside can send some people into a tailspin.