Quotes about Challenge

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them, because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

If you have been long defeated by a difficulty, it is probably because you have told yourself for weeks, months, and even for years that there is nothing you can do about it. But when you emphasize and reemphasize a positive attitude, you will finally convince your own consciousness that you can do something about difficulties.

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.