"Thinking negative is so easy! thinking and being positive is a challenge."

BPBEE | challenges | 2 bookmarks

"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | challenges | 6 bookmarks

"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."

O'Neil, Nena | challenges | 2 bookmarks

"When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge."

Bradshaw, Terry | challenges | 11 bookmarks

"The New Frontier I speak of 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 intent to ask of them."

Kennedy, John F. | challenges | 0 bookmarks

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."

Sheehy, Gail | challenges | 1 bookmarks

"You have to erect a fence and say, Okay, scale this."

Ronstadt, Linda | challenges | 1 bookmarks

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

Truman, Harry S | challenges | 3 bookmarks

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

Service, Robert W. | challenges | 9 bookmarks

"I love the challenge."

Lopez, Nancy | challenges | 0 bookmarks

"We only think when we are confronted with problems."

Dewey, John | challenges | 6 bookmarks

"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."

Chung, Connie | challenges | 4 bookmarks

"The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs."

Sky, Michael | challenges | 1 bookmarks

"“The view from the summit is much more majestic, when its path has been littered by unsuccessful prior climbers.” "

Arnie Sherr | challenges | 2 bookmarks

"Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory."

Patton, George S. | challenges | 5 bookmarks

"One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven."

Khan, Pir Vilayat | challenges | 3 bookmarks

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

Reagon, Bernice Johnson | challenges | 13 bookmarks

"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it."

Smith, Margaret Chase | challenges | 5 bookmarks

"It's always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me."

Tabuchi, Yoshihisa | challenges | 0 bookmarks

"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!"

Street, Picabo | challenges | 3 bookmarks

"When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes."

Auden, W. H. | science | 2 bookmarks

"America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment."

Auden, W. H. | experts | 0 bookmarks

"What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters."

Auden, W. H. | intimacy | 0 bookmarks

"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."

Auden, W. H. | autobiography | 0 bookmarks

"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"

Auden, W. H. | faith | 17 bookmarks

"In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure."

Auden, W. H. | action | 3 bookmarks

"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading."

Auden, W. H. | conceit | 5 bookmarks

"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."

Auden, W. H. | death | 0 bookmarks

"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition."

Auden, W. H. | eyes | 3 bookmarks

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

Auden, W. H. | genius | 5 bookmarks

"A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless."

Auden, W. H. | smells | 1 bookmarks

"One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell."

Auden, W. H. | hell | 2 bookmarks

"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."

Auden, W. H. | teacher | 4 bookmarks

"It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful."

Auden, W. H. | leisure | 1 bookmarks

"A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do."

Auden, W. H. | work | 2 bookmarks

"Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable."

Auden, W. H. | names | 0 bookmarks

"All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him."

Auden, W. H. | creativity | 0 bookmarks

"No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games."

Auden, W. H. | games | 0 bookmarks

"Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake."

Auden, W. H. | theater | 2 bookmarks

"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."

Auden, W. H. | writers and writing | 4 bookmarks

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Kierkegaard, Søren | life | 14 bookmarks

"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle | hope | 45 bookmarks

"When you're through changing, you're through."

Barton, Bruce | change | 24 bookmarks

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De | kindness | 18 bookmarks

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

Burnett, Carol | change | 33 bookmarks

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

Gibran, Kahlil | kindness | 12 bookmarks

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya | hope | 91 bookmarks

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha | thoughts and thinking | 24 bookmarks

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles | change | 94 bookmarks

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

Gibran, Kahlil | the future | 15 bookmarks

"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."

Buddha | change | 37 bookmarks

"Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you."

Ruckett | hope | 15 bookmarks

"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

Gibran, Kahlil | forgiveness | 10 bookmarks

"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. | life | 11 bookmarks

"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil | beauty | 20 bookmarks

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

Branden, Nathaniel | change | 39 bookmarks

"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."

Rooney, Andy | happiness | 3 bookmarks

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James | change | 68 bookmarks

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. | hope | 30 bookmarks

"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."

Gibran, Kahlil | silence | 12 bookmarks