Norman Cousins
"It is circumstances which show what men are. Therefore, when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer ofwrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. For what purpose? you might ask. So that you may become an Olympic Conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat. ...no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist."
Epictetus
We only go where we need to go or go where we want to go because we overcome obstacles.
And I'm still overcoming obstacles today.
Danny Glover
We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.
Kall, Robert
What is the heaviest thing... that I may take it upon me and rejoice in my strength.
Nietzsche
What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In thedifficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
*"I love to hear of worthy foes."
Scott, Sir Walter., LADY OF THE LAKE, canto 4, st.8
I am at my very best when the circumstances get dangerous.
Ted Turner
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest and therefore when most was required of imagination to build at all. Limitations seem to have always been the best friends of architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Risks are the spice of life, and this is the kind of moment that a test pilot lives for. THe butterflies are fluttering, but you feed off fear as if it's a high-energy candy bar. It keeps you alert and focused.
You accept risk as part of every new challenge; it comes with the territory.Chuck Yeager, Yeager
Chuck Yeager, Yeager
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo Machiavelli
"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never
really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what makes you go
beyond the norm." -Cicely Tyson
We triumph without glory when we counquer without danger.
Corneille Le Cid, ii.,2. (1606-1684)
There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
John F. Kennedy
When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe, you rot.
Ray Kroc (McDonalds founder)
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