Meaningful Quotes: Challenge
"If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around." (unknown)
"A smooth sea never made a good sailor." (unknown)
"Don't carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them." (unknown)
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural, 1933)
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." (Michelangelo)
"I challenge you to show me someone flawless who has made a significant contribution to history. It is not perfection that characterizes greatness. It is, rather, the ability to achieve great things in spite of our weaknesses." (John McCain, in Hero of the High Seas by Michael L. Cooper)
"Don't confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress." (Alfred A. Montapert)
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." (Daniel Boone)
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end that triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid soul who neither know victory nor defeat." (Theodore Roosevelt)
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." (Eric Hoffer)
"Kites rise against the wind, not with it." (Winston Churchill)
"If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game." (Ben Bernanke)
"An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming." (unknown)
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." (Truman Capote)
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” (Leonard Cohen)
“The crime in life is the failure to have a lofty goal rather than the failure to reach it.” (Leroy Brownlow)
“A river becomes crooked by following the line of least resistance! So does man!” (unknown)
"A smooth sea never made a good sailor." (unknown)
"Don't carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them." (unknown)
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural, 1933)
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." (Michelangelo)
"I challenge you to show me someone flawless who has made a significant contribution to history. It is not perfection that characterizes greatness. It is, rather, the ability to achieve great things in spite of our weaknesses." (John McCain, in Hero of the High Seas by Michael L. Cooper)
"Don't confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress." (Alfred A. Montapert)
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." (Daniel Boone)
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end that triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid soul who neither know victory nor defeat." (Theodore Roosevelt)
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." (Eric Hoffer)
"Kites rise against the wind, not with it." (Winston Churchill)
"If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game." (Ben Bernanke)
"An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming." (unknown)
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." (Truman Capote)
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” (Leonard Cohen)
“The crime in life is the failure to have a lofty goal rather than the failure to reach it.” (Leroy Brownlow)
“A river becomes crooked by following the line of least resistance! So does man!” (unknown)