Quotes about Challenge

A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You must keep moving to maintain the balance.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Isn't there something in living dangerously?

And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

Its not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens you.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.