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Quotations about challenges

Booker WashingtonI have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

 - Booker T. Washington

Tags:   challenges  obstacles  success  

Friedrich NietzscheThe most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others.

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

Garry KasparovThere is no one that can share your responsibility. It is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

 - Garry Kasparov

Tags:   challenges  destiny  responsibility  

Martin Luther KingThe ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

 - Martin Luther King

Tags:   challenges  character  

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass . . . It's about learning how to dance in the rain.

 - Vivian Greene

Tags:   challenges  life  perseverance  

Henry FordWhen everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

 - Henry Ford

Tags:   challenges  perseverance  

Richard BransonMy biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had -- every day I'm learning something new.

 - Richard Branson

Tags:   challenges  learning  motivation  

Arthur C. ClarkeAnything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties, if it is desired greatly enough.

 - Arthur C. Clarke

Tags:   challenges  possibilities  

Dwight EisenhowerCrises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.

A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research--these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel. But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs-balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage--balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future.

Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.

 - Dwight Eisenhower

Tags:   balance  challenges  progress  

John F. KennedyWe choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

 - John F. Kennedy

Tags:   challenges  exploration  moon  progress  

David GogginsEverything in life is a mind game! Whenever we get swept under by life's dramas, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things end.

 - David Goggins

Tags:   challenges  failure  resilience