Quotes About Challenge

it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.

Remember, my young friend, life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practise.' He winked at me. 'Forster.

What are you playing?" I asked him. "War." "Is that a game?" "It's the best game in the world." "And are you winning?" "I won't know till it's over." "And perhaps not even then.

A vida é fácil de narrar, mas atordoante de se praticar. Uma História de Solidão

To be committed to life as growth and overcoming is to be willing to accept suffering and risk pain.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

Most people are a little scared at new things ... You want a bigger heart to face danger which you go out to look for, and which doesn't come to you in the ordinary way of business. Still, that's pretty much the same thing—good nerves and good health, and a natural liking for rows.

A man's courage is like a horse that refuses a fence; you have got to take him by the head and cram him at it again. If you don't, he will funk worse next time. I hadn't enough courage to be able to take chances with it, though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most was being afraid.

Five reasonably intelligent men sat in a stupor of impotence, repeating wearily the essentials of a problem which they could not solve.

The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend; For Iperceive

Esforzaos a entrar por la puerta angosta'

decir que esta colina deja sin aliento. No es sorprendente que quien ama la comodidad más que a su propia alma decida seguir un camino más llano".

Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said I am void of fear in this matter. Prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou go no farther: here will I spill thy soul.

When I first went to preach the word abroad, the doctors and priests of the country did open wide against me.  But I was persuaded of this, not to render railing for railing; but to see how many of their carnal professors I could convince of their miserable state by the law, and of the want and worth of Christ: for, thought I, This shall answer for me in time to come, when they shall be for my hire before their face.  Gen. xxx. 33.

Sure, but those times of victory over carnality happened infrequently. However, when they did happen, it was truly golden.

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

Dreams often come one size too big so that we can grow into them.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all." —Kevin Myers

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all." —Donald M. Nelson