Quotes about Challenge

chance on foreign territory.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it

When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore, I sometimes think: Friend, the fault is in your drawing. I don't regret for a moment that I did not go in for watercolour and oil painting straight away. I am sure I will catch up if only I struggle on, so that my hand does not waver in drawing and perspective.

Anyone who leads an upright life and experiences real difficulty and disappointment and yet is not crushed by them is worth more than one for whom everything has always been plain sailing and who has known nothing but relative prosperity.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment, but is not bowed down by them, is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known relative prosperity.

You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter, 'You can't do a thing'.