Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. KennedyTags: success failure achievement challenge trying
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Barack ObamaTags: civic-responsibility patriotism change trial challenge
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
Abigail AdamsTags: intelligence carpe-diem genius trial heroism challenge trying-times
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]
Tags: moon trial aspiration challenge space-travel kennedy space-race
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.
Noam ChomskyTags: freedom justification challenge authority domination dismantle heirarchy human-freedom illegitimate-power
Rejection is a challenge.
Veronica PurcellTags: motivation challenge rejection
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
Abigail AdamsTags: intelligence trial challenge
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Margaret ThatcherTags: accomplishment achievement challenge
Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.
Crystal Woodman MillerTags: inspirational hope challenge christ bold world-changer
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’
Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.
Tags: humor cats people living dead challenge guess kinds kinds-of-people
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