Quotes about Challenge

The measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

He had a dream and it shot him.

Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't 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.