Quotes About Challenge

he lost his weapon as well as his confidence as he fell.

don't care who wins. It is of no consequence to me who gets the cup and who doesn't. What I enjoy is seeing these great players equally challenged, because it brings out the best in each of them.

You never knew what shape your enemies would take." from the book -- Black Gold of the Sun

Boy, this really wasn't one of his days. He just couldn't put a foot right. It was a situation all too familiar to me, this business of setting off on the wrong foot and doggedly remaining there. Only I'd never watched it from the outside before. It was fascinating.

Now called for something drastically un-running away. Now called for--what? Suddenly I had it. Now called for being a librarian! (--Sally Jay Gorce)

However, how will you feel going to your grave without having tried?

Business can also be seen as a work of art requiring an artist, a task of prophecy requiring a visionary, a social responsibility requiring a judge, a job of growing requiring skills like those of a farmer or parent, a challenge of educating the public requiring skills like those of a teacher, and the like.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

We have successfully grappled with some giant evils and have slain them, but others to meet and conquer them is a question still. It depends upon the boys if today to answer that. It is upon their shoulders that the burden will fall, and they are ones to whom the fight is coming.

Isn't that petty?" "Anna, you have not yet seen pettiness. When a couple of tough guys like the general and Lugala Tsu decide to confront each other, vistas of pettiness open up that you and I can barely comprehend.

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

A great deal of fear is a result of just "not knowing." We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

Perhaps we have to learn that life was not meant to be lived in security but with adventurous courage

Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.