Quotes about Challenge

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude—a gray spread of cotton that 'seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way.

He looked at the paper before him. He wondered why ineptitude should exist and have its say.

The status was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it. All that Dagny wanted of life was contained in the desire to hold her head as he did.

dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him.

Have you ever noticed that if there's a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?

I noticed that my mother paid for her intellectual freedom with chronic financial struggles and occasional personal chaos

The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is.

But know this America: we will meet them

Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.

How many of us are tested in that way, asked to risk careers we've long dreamed of in the service of some greater good?

It's like moving-in day on a college campus, except a large percentage of the people involved are middle-aged, in suits, and, along with you, charged with running the most powerful nation on earth.

America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won't promise that now. Yes, our path is harder — but it leads to a better place. Yes our road is longer — but we travel it together. We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes...