Quotes about Challenge

Leaders grasp nettles.

Getting over an unfavorable impression is ever so much easier than living up to an ideal.

it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring them to conviction of sin. If you don't like my preaching you must lump it. I really cannot help it. In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I

Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.

Yes, but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. There should be a little filigree about a woman--something of the coquette. A man likes a sort of challenge. The more of a dead set she makes at you the better.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us

I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.

T]hose who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.