Quotes About Challenge

1658) REVERSAL

Conoce  a tu presa,  y  elígela con cuidado. No pier- das tiempo en la caza menor: los conejos que caen en la trampa, el visón preso en el cepo perfumado. Desafío es placer.

There are many roads to singularity, not all of them well traveled. The newest ones can be arduous, but they are often shortcuts to greatness. (Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658)

What Makes You Feel More Alive?

When we are tired, it is often because we are bored. When no real challenge faces us, a mental and physical lethargy sets in. "Sometimes death only comes from a lack of energy," Napoleon once said, and lack of energy comes from a lack of challenges, comes when we have taken on less than we are capable of. Take a risk and your body and mind will respond with a rush of energy. Make risk a constant practice; never let yourself settle down.

Occasional mistakes are inevitable—the world is just too unpredictable. People of power, however, are undone not by the mistakes they make, but by the way they deal with them.

Remember: there are always people out there who are more aggressive, more devious, more ruthless than you are, and it is inevitable that some of them will cross your path.

Your first impulse should always be to find the evidence that disconfirms your most cherished beliefs and those of others. That is true science.

One master said, "He doesn't just look for the best move. He looks for the move that will disturb the man he is playing.

If you have no enemies, find a way to make them

There are occasions when losing is a victory, so long as there is a fight.

History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?

We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.

What a day in prospect: the sort of day one waded through with no aim higher than to reach the other end intact.

Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

How much longer, Catilina, will you try our patience

The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.

Sometimes,' he said, summing up the discussion with an aphorism I have never forgotten, 'if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight – start a fight, even if you do not know how you are going to win it, because it is only when a fight is on, and everything is in motion, that you can hope to see your way through.

But if you seek power," he said, almost to himself, "and if you are a new man, this is what you have to do. Nobody is ever going to simply hand it to you.

Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.' J. V. Stalin, 1918

always remember that when things look darkest, they usually get considerably worse

When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand and then look at it again.

I also hope to challenge financial thinkers to improve their theories by testing them against the impressive evidence that suggests that the price level is more than merely the sum of the available economic information, as is now generally thought to be the case.

British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.