What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.
One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
I love the challenge.
If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.
Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
You have to erect a fence and say, Okay, scale this.
Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.
When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm going to prove you wrong!
It's always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.