Challenges Quotes - Page 25

• The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

  Tony Blair

  Change, Country, Sacrifice

  Tony Blair's address to the the 2005 G8 climate change summit in London, as reported in "Blair signals shift over climate change" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2005.

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• The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

  e. e. cummings

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Loving Life

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• Optimism is the foundation of courage.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Life, Appreciation, Courage

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• Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

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• Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

  Plutarch

  Courage, Enemy, Valor

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.183

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• The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Greatness, Faces, Common

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• Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Courage, Teaching, Learning

  "Don Carlos". Play by Friedrich Schiller, 1787.

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• Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store of courage. Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost

  Roger Dawson

  Inspirational, Courage, Determination

  Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems.
  However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.

  David Filo

  Inspirational, Business, Reliability

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• Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

  Gina Rinehart

  Inspirational, Business, Partnership

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• It was very difficult.
  We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell.
  I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.

  Gina Rinehart

  Inspirational, Business, Real

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• For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Forgiveness, Giving, Humanity

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• It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process -- what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the honesty the training demands -- those are things nobody can take away from you whether you finish twelfth or you're an Olympic Champion.

  Silken Laumann

  Softball, Sports, Running

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• Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Peace, Compassion

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• Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.

  Caroline Adams Miller

  Wisdom, Yoga, Healing

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• Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.

  Leonardo Boff

  Mean, Technology, Order

  Leonardo Boff (2001). “The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today”, p.43, Orbis Books

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• Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Motivational, Peace, Wall

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• Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

  Erich Fromm

  Creativity, Acceptance, Self

  "Creative Expression: Creativity and Self Exploration". Book by Jennifer Freed, p. 39, 2007.

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• I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.

  Herman Cain

  Believe, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Politicians Who Made You Laugh Out Loud In 2011". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 30, 2011.

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• The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Adversity, Prosperity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Adversity, Opportunity, Greatness

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• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

  Robert Collier

  Lying, Adversity, Winning

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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