Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.
When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.
The New Frontier of which I speak 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 intend to ask of them.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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.
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.
Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.
I love the challenge.
You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.
It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together.
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.
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
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