"There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting."
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"Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge."
"We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge."
"If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else."
"We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence."
"There are no laurels in life, just new challenges."
"For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action."
"After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences."
"The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society."
"The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done."
"It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?"
"To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up."
"Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course."
"Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety."
"Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse."
"You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas."
"Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God's Word."
"Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement."
"...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?"
"It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it."