Quotes About Challenges

?nsanlar hem kendilerine hem de ba?kalar?na durmadan güçlük ç?kar?rlar ama, " dedi, " asla y?lmamal?. Yolunun üstüne bir da? ç?kan yolcu gibi olmal?. ?üphesiz, bu da? olmasayd? yol daha rahat, daha k?sa olurdu. Ama mademki da? vard?r, onu a?mak gerek.

Le difficoltà crescono quanto più ci si avvicina alla meta. Seminare non è faticoso quanto raccogliere.

Cerca di restare calma, in ogni caso. Per una donna ingoiare il rospo è più facile che per un uomo». «Davvero? Direi il contrario, visto che abbiamo la gola più stretta».

There are a few things in life that occur, that you don't ask for, that are just dealt to you. These things can define you or you can define yourself through them. I elect to define myself through overcoming what has been dealt to me in my life. It took thirty-one years and two generations of tweaking to get my first perfect ending. Now I am going to work on my next one.

When life throws you to your back, you need to know how not to get pinned, get off of your back and do enough to make up the difference in order to win.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional.

What if the greatest part of the pack have run upon a false scent, may not the hindmost dog hit it off?

'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

It is the lumps and trials That tell us whether we shall be known And whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.

I am a man of many in-laws and I would be obliged to concede that only ten per cent or less are troublesome and less than five per cent are truly perverted. Not a bad ratio at all...

Trouble my dear readers is everywhere. We are all in this world to bear our share of it and we must not be surprised when those who inflict it appear suddenly as though out of nowhere.

You will always face difficulties in prayer. Just accept it.

Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES—THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.

Apart from Scientologists and born-again Christians, junkies are probably the worst people in the world to live with. Even other junkies will tell you that.

There's only so much to a lifetime and often it lets you down when you're best geared for going on.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

If a system is to deal successfully with the diversity of challenges its environment produces, then it needs to have a repertoire of responses (at least) as nuanced as the problems thrown up by the environment. So a viable system is one that can handle the variability of its environment. Or, as Ashby put it, only variety can absorb variety.

Civilizations do fail. We have never seen one that hasn't. The difference is that the torch of progress has, in the past, always passed to another region of the world. But we now for the first time have a single, global civilization. If it fails, we all fail together.

In industry, you take a bump now and then, but you bounce back as long as you don't get defeated inside.

Nathan Greene, special counsel to Lazard Frères, who was on the board for a while. Greene was a kind of business father confessor to me. I remember his saying, 'You think you'll make your pile and then be independent. My friend, in Wall Street you don't just win your independence at one stroke. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, you have to win your independence over again every day.' I found that he was right about that.

January 18, 1953: I am now definitely committed [to Minerals & Chemicals] for not less than three more years … and morally committed to see the thing through. While I can't conceive that this business will ever seem enough, an end of itself, to make up a satisfactory life, yet the busy-ness, the activity, the crises, the gambles, the management problems I must face, the judgment about people, all combine to make something far from dull.