"Life is a challenge, meet it."~ Mother Teressa
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." ~ Chinese Proverb
"I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish."~ Yanni
"Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works." ~ Yanni
"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges." ~Martin Luther King Jr.
Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for. -- Travis White
“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.” ~ Carlos Castaneda
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. -- Terry Bradshaw
Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. -- Charles W. Chesnutt
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Mark Twain
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!" -- Picabo Street
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. -- Nena O'Neil
There is no Challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself. -- Michael F. Staley
You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. -- Darwin P. Kingsley
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. -- Connie Chung
When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. -- Margaret Chase Smith
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. -- George S. Patton
If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. -- John Cage
"In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it." Norman Vincent Peale
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." Walt Disney
"Just because you know where you want to end up doesn’t mean you will not be faced with obstacles, or challenges along the way. Instant success rarely happens." Catherine Pulsifer, from Wings for Goals
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." Richard Bach
"Before you can consider a problem water under the bridge, you must first patiently work on removing the dam." Michelle C. Ustaszeski
"Perseverance is the ability to keep going in the face of continuous challenges. It is the ability to disregard distractions and to stay focused." Catherine Pulsifer
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie
"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." Richard M. Nixon
"A challenge is an opportunity to prove your ability to yourself, and others." Contributed by Joe Brown
"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." Mike Gafka
"Let your language be a source of unity but not a separating tool." William Ngwako Maphoto
"Make every rejection moment an opportunity for revolution. Make every revulsion(dislike) into Attraction." William Ngwako Maphoto
"Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing." Lady Holland
"For every mountain there is a miracle." Robert H. Schuller
"Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors." African Proverb
"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again." Vince Lombardi
"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong." Thomas Carlyle
"I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much." Mother Teresa
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." Aldous Huxley
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it." Washington Irving
"A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles." Gunderson
"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." Orison Swett Marden
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others...
When was the last time you did something for the first time? The lesser this interval, the nearer you are to another success.
For all your days prepare
And meet things ever alike
When you are the anvil, bear
When you are the hammer, strike
No problem can withstand the power of sustained creative thought.
There are no mistakes made in life, there are only lessons learnt.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Be the change you want to see in this world.
Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did.
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
Do what you know best, if you are a runner, run.. If you are a bell, ring.
Worry is the misuse of imagination.
Instead of thinking where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes 20 years of smart work to become an overnight success.
When we put a limit on what we want to do, we also put a limit on what we can do.
Either I will find a way or I will make one.
Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn.
We dont know who we are until we see what we can do.
Dont go through life, grow through life.
Its time to start living the life we have imagined.
No matter what our age or condition is, there are still untapped potentials within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The only aging process is the erosion of dreams.
Cherish your yesterdays, dream your tomorrows, but live your todays!
Our self image and our habits go together. Change one and the other will be changed automatically.
Make you life a mission, not an intermission.
The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Nothing is good or bad, but it is our thinking which makes it so.
Happiness is a present attitude, not a future condition.
Believe that you have it, and you have it.
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others...
When was the last time you did something for the first time? The lesser this interval, the nearer you are to another success.
For all your days prepare
And meet things ever alike
When you are the anvil, bear
When you are the hammer, strike
No problem can withstand the power of sustained creative thought.
There are no mistakes made in life, there are only lessons learnt.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Be the change you want to see in this world.
Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did.
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
Do what you know best, if you are a runner, run.. If you are a bell, ring.
Worry is the misuse of imagination.
Instead of thinking where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes 20 years of smart work to become an overnight success.
When we put a limit on what we want to do, we also put a limit on what we can do.
Either I will find a way or I will make one.
Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn.
We dont know who we are until we see what we can do.
Dont go through life, grow through life.
Its time to start living the life we have imagined.
No matter what our age or condition is, there are still untapped potentials within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The only aging process is the erosion of dreams.
Cherish your yesterdays, dream your tomorrows, but live your todays!
Our self image and our habits go together. Change one and the other will be changed automatically.
Make you life a mission, not an intermission.
The world is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Nothing is good or bad, but it is our thinking which makes it so.
Happiness is a present attitude, not a future condition.
Believe that you have it, and you have it.
Art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Thoughts lead to purpose, purposes to action, actions form habits, habits decide our character and character fixes our destiny.
Failure is a temporary change in direction to set you straight towards the path of success.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Tough times dont last, while tough people do.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Use whatever talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang, except those that sing best.
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere.
They can conquer who believe they can.
You will rise by lifting others.
Your mind will give back exactly what you put into it.
The fault finder will find faults even in a paradise.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Being happy is one of the ways of being wise.
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
We can accomplish many more if we did not think of them as impossible.
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
The man with confidence in himself, gains the confidence of others.
You will only go as far as you can think you can go.
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
The biggest mistake of all is to avoid situations in which you might make a mistake.
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Genius is the product of enthusiasm.
Confidence in nonsense is requirement for the creative process.
Optimists do not wait for improvement, they achieve it.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, else we harden and weaken.
Use the word "impossible" with great caution.
Never discourage anyone, who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Two men look out through the same bars, one sees the mud and one the stars.
Trust your hopes, not your fears.
Whether a glass is half-full or half-empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.
There is a better way to do everything you do, find it.
Be a believer first, to become an achiever.
Things don't turn up in this world, unless somebody turns them up.
Promote yourself without demoting others.
A positive attitude is not a destination, its a way of life.
Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.
When you are though changing, you are though.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
You begin to achieve when you begin to believe.
It is not the situation that matters, but your reaction to the situation.
A man who has to be convinced before he acts, is not a man of action.
Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will.
We cant direct the winds, but we can adjust the sails.
If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you.
Life is a collection of experiments, the more experiments you make, the better.
One cannot control the length of his life, but he can have something to say about its width and depth.
Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
In the long run, a person hits at only what he aimed at.
The way to overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
We are what we think we are. All that we are arises with our own thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
Praise loudly, blame softly
The poor man is not he who is without money, but he who is without a dream.
There is only one corner if the universe you can be certain of improving, and thats your own self.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
A problem is a chance for you to do your best
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce
Reputation is what people think you are...
Personality is what you seem to be....
Character is what you really are.....
"Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special".
"Action may not always bring happiness,
But there is no happiness without action" -Benjamin Disraeli
"Happiness is a choice that requires efforts at times"
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for" - Allan K. Chalmers
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. " - Helen Keller
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was" - Richard L. Evans
"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision" - Gary Collins
"Today's beautiful moments are Tomorrow's beautiful memories."
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenges and controversy" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life is the first gift, Love is the second and Understanding is the third"
"Don't grieve that your roses have thorns. Rejoice instead that your thorns have roses!"
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom"
"Its not how you fall, but how you pick yourself up again"
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not achieved by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upwards in the night"
"Love is true when it comes from the heart, not from the mouth" - Aristotle
"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born twin." - Lord Byron
"Success is not the result of a spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire" - Fred Shero
"Do not set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you..."
"He who dares wins"
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. - Horace
"Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great" - Kenny Rogers
"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there is always a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."- Wayne Dyer
"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Liars need good memories"
"Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing"
"Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things that we do not do, we end up doing nothing. Little drops of water make a mighty ocean"
"You learn swimming by swimming only. There is no shortcut for success"
"Do not let life slip through your fingers by living in the past or by living for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life"
"I cried for boots until I saw a man who had no legs"
"As a rule, Man is a fool
When it's hot he wants it cool
When it's cool he wants it hot
Always wanting what is not"
"Life is a unique exam of its kind in the sense that we face the exams first and learn lessons later."
"Treat a person as he is and he remains as he is, treat the same person as he could be and he will become what he should be."
"A reasonable person is the one who adapts himself to the world. An un-reasonable person is the one who keeps trying to adapt the rest of the world to suit himself."
"God helps only those who help themselves."
"When you lose, do not lose the lesson."
"I love you not for whom you are, but for who I am when I am by your side."
"No person deserves your tears, and the one who deserves won't make you cry."
"The worst way to miss someone is to be seated by his/her side and to know that you'll never have him/her."
"Never stop smiling, not even when you are sad, someone might fall in love with your smile."
"You may only be a person in this world, but for someone, you're the world."
"Don't spend time with someone who doesn't care spending it with you."
"May be GOD wants you to meet many wrong people before you meet the right one, so when this happens, you'll be thankful."
"Don't struggle so much, best things happen when unexpected."
"Do not give up when there is still something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. It is a fragile thread that binds us to each other."
"When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."
"Look deep, deep into nature and then you will understand everything better" - Albert Einstein
"Man is the only animal who eats even when he is not hungry"
"Don't live to eat, eat to live"
"When the going gets tough, the tough get the going
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin ? to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that.
EACH soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity with in by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy- by one or more all of these- and be free. This is whole of RELIGION.
Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.