Quotes About Challenge

the illness left one leg shorter than the other.

Tough challenges from Rockefeller might have blunted Tarbell's confidence and made readers question her sources.

Had he known what lay ahead, it seems doubtful that he would have persevered.

the tasks piled upon Coster had grown "far heavier than any one man ought to bear, or could bear with safety.

It's twaddle, poisonous twaddle, put out for a purpose. As a matter of fact, we were all in a sinking ship, if existing cut-throat competition continued, and we were trying to build a lifeboat to carry us all to the shore. You don't have to threaten men to get them to leave a sinking ship in a lifeboat.

The alopecia dealt a blow to Rockefeller's morale—the psychological effect is crushing for most people

Potts aspired to be Rockefeller's equal.

When they didn't flinch, Rockefeller launched an all-out attack.

Some invisible force was working against them.

But being uncomfortable is a virtue, not a hindrance.

human tragedy of potentially biblical proportions." He added: "The challenge we face is how to act with sufficient strength and speed to prevent the recession from morphing into a prolonged depression

You think you've been in deep shit before, and then you realise you have absolutely no conception of how deep shit can really be.

I had to decide how to use that pressure. I had to decide whether it was going to crush me or turn me into a diamond.

He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.

Attacking me was like pushing open a forbidden door. What waited on the other side was his problem.

Dealing with morons Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is like teaching Hindu to a beagle.

Reacher said nothing. We can't fight thirty people. To which Reacher's natural response was: Why the hell not?

We're going to beat you so hard your kids will be born dizzy.

You could try, Reacher said. But you'd get hurt. You're out of your league. You're up against something you never saw before. You have a mighty high opinion of yourself. Reacher nodded at Neagley. I'm talking about her. I'm just here to clear up the mess.

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning. I

Now you had one come back, Harley.

She said, "You say no one ever is sure what to expect. On either side. Which is a good thing. It means the game goes to the fastest thinker. That's all I need to be." "Correct," I said. "Weird things are going to happen, and things are going to change, and the ground is going to move under our feet, but if we keep on thinking fast, we'll be OK.

any structure that has a ranking system tempts you to try to climb it.

operation was for me. I had been in town less than a half-hour. The other five had probably been here all their lives. Any problem with any of them and an embarrassed sergeant would have shuffled in. He would be apologetic. He would mumble to them.