Challenges Quotes

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

I think scale matters, and being an Aggregator creates lots of opportunity, but scale also has a lot of disadvantages and it's an imperfect concept.

I think you can love more than one child, and we've got to do all these at once. I think there's a store inventory opportunity for us and buying and selling merchandise is hard, by the way. There's a lot of people here that have been doing it for a long time and they're good at it, thankfully, but it's not easy.

Look around at things that just aren't getting done. Maybe there's a project you could tackle. Maybe there's an issue that always gets back-burnered for other priorities. Challenge yourself to take on those difficult assignments. They're learning opportunities, and you have a chance to change something for the better.

Finding inventory in the backroom is not always a joy.

I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket upon my shoulders and entered the rank, or if I could have justified the measure of posterity, and my own conscience, had retired to the back country, and lived in a wigwam. If I shall be able to rise superior to these, and many other difficulties which might be enumerated, I shall most religiously believe that the finger of Providence is in it, to blind the eyes of our enemies; for surely if we get well through this month, it must be for want of their knowing the disadvantages we labor under.

Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness. Few, who are not philosophical spectators, can realize the difficult and delicate part, which a man in my situation had to act.

This is a long tough road we have to travel.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

I have reached here by selling tea.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

There shall be no Alps.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

When people are determined they can overcome anything.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.