c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I've learned a lot playing college ball," Mark says."What you do in high school doesn't mean shit. You can be the best ballplayer in your high school. The best in the country or state, but when you get to college, you're going to meet fifty other guys who can brag the same thing. You'll meet guys better than you, stronger than you, faster than you, and then you're up against better teams. The world changes when you leave Groveton.
— Katie McGarry, Dare You To
College is a different scene than it was ten years ago. It used to be all about sex and drugs. Now it’s all about texting and fast food.
— Aaron B. Powell, Priority
The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.
— Renata Adler, Speedboat
College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.
— Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
Ah, group projects. Some people love 'em, some people hate 'em - okay, most people hate 'em. Your grade now depends on other people whom you may never have met before, and you've somehow got to do the impossible: find some time when a bunch of super-busy high school or college students can actually meet in person.
— Stefanie Weisman, The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College
The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.
— Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front
In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche, Homer to Shakespeare - you name it, I read it. At times it drove me crazy - picture reading hundreds of pages that sound like this every week: "All rational knowledge is either material and concerned with some object, or formal and concerned only with the form of understanding and of reason themselves and with the universal rules of thought in general without regard to differences of its objects." Come again, Kant?
— Stefanie Weisman, The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College
It was a running joke; everyone was aware of how ridiculous the rumor mill was, and yet they all shamelessly participated in it.
— Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people.
— Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want
You have a college degree? You can barely talk.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape
It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.
— Russell Kirk
This is not hyperbole. It is possible for the average professor to have been taught by leftists, grown up in a left-leaning city, read only left-leaning books, entertained by leftists in pop culture and became a professor without holding a job outside academia. How can we expect these professors to adequately explain what people who oppose them believe?
— Lee Doren, Please Enroll Responsibly: Avoid Indoctrination at College
In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too difficult, therefore it's the classics that are to blame. Today the student asserts his incapacity as a privilege. I can't learn it, so there is something wrong with it. And there is something especially wrong with the bad teacher who wants to teach it. There are no more criteria, Mr. Zuckerman, only opinions.
— Philip Roth, The Human Stain
...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly.
— Lee Doren, Please Enroll Responsibly: Avoid Indoctrination at College
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can't afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.
— Laura Lippman, Pony Girl
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
I used to think all that game playing was par for the course and even kind of exciting. It just felt logical to pursue a boy the same way I applied to college—by expending exorbitant time and energy showing what a great catch I am and what a perfect match we’d be, so that after a lengthy waiting period I might get accepted. But now the idea of reliving any version of that charade seems like hell.
— Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl
In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily.
— Abraham Lincoln
Once I've been told that college is fun, a mixture of education and pleasure. I really don't understand where the F did they brought this conclusion from.
— Amjed Rajab
I was not use to that kind of hunger, even as a poor college student.
— Julie Wenzel, Alone I Walk
..."There’s really no way I can explain it to her without *still* sounding like scum," I complained to Sinter."The 'sympathy shack-up' doesn’t score many points," he agreed.*
— Molly Ringle, Relatively Honest
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
— Terence McKenna
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
the problem at this point is that there is a problem.
— Captain Obvious
I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.
— Poul Anderson, Call Me Joe
PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.
— Gerald M. Weinberg
There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
— Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
— Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
— René Descartes, Discourse on Method
Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.
— Dan Roam, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Tyrants have only one problem in life.They simply just wanna rule everything.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
— Charles Franklin Kettering
Thanks, Clementine. See what I mean? Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you can figure out the solution.
— Sara Pennypacker, Clementine's Letter
Let them judge you.Let them misunderstand you.Let them gossip about you.Their opinions aren’t your problem.You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity.No matter what they do or say,don’t you dare doubt your worthor the beauty of your truth.Just keep on shining like you do.
— Scott Stabile
There is always a solution to every problem! Fishy
— Lily Amis, Birdy  Fishy, Destination: Freedom
Define yourself? Somebody who gets mad after facing a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve the problem? You need not answer it in words, your reaction to the problem will define who you actually are!
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
— Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying
The fucking problem of all and everything is that I just forgot,... the message.
— Deyth Banger, Protocols
Be careful about financial offers that often come by email. Before you respond to such an offer, ask yourself: do I really need a new problem?
— Eraldo Banovac
God sometimes allows problem to come into our lives to encourage us to make a step forward
— Sunday Adelaja
The time of persecution and problems is the time to thank and praise God
— Sunday Adelaja
Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
— Teddy Roosevelt
The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications.
— Steven Magee
The problem was the mask... couldn't be taken off... so much time has been on my face...
— Deyth Banger, Fakeness = Thoughts
What's the biggest problem?...People show in the films not the best ideas which have been ever exposed to the world.
— Deyth Banger, Problem 1#2
Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The problem is solvable puzzle.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Beneath every mountain lies a valley and beyond every problem lies a solution.
— gugu
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a major problem from poorly tested products and it should be dealt with sooner rather than later by government regulators.
— Steven Magee
Is it the problem in my conclusion or is it in you... it's difficult to say I can say for sure Dean Koontz audiobooks I have them on few clicks away... but I can't say anything about your character... it's very soft... lazy and not serious.... you want a lit of with process 0%.
— Deyth Banger
First solve the problem. Then, write the code.
— Waseem Latif
Any problem is insignificant to whom do not have it
— Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
I have a problem... i choose to love them rather than myself... and that's why i am always the one who suffer...
— shivangi lavaniya
Anything is possible
—  possibilities exist in any problem.
I found awesome quotes here which are marvel, but the main problem is that from 10000000000000000000000000 people which is an endless result few of them read them. What happens with the other part?? To clever to read this?
— Deyth Banger
Confidence now, in the past and it will continue to be the mankind problem!
— Deyth Banger
I will say it here on louder, all people to can hear it. I "DeYtH Banger" - I have masturbating problem ): .
— Deyth Banger
Curious make you clever, that most people aren't curious it's their problem.
— Deyth Banger
Who am I?? No, No you don't ask the questions I ask them my question is how much stupid are you??...You are so quite, why?? You don't have answer, it's not a problem you don't need to answer I kwow it!
— Deyth Banger
It is quite common for people to focus on the problem rather than the solutions.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
— Brendan Francis
I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that while they are always talking of things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is. A real problem only occurs when there are admittedly disadvantages in all courses that can be pursued. If it is discovered just before a fashionable wedding that the Bishop is locked up in the coal-cellar, that is not a problem. It is obvious to anyone but an extreme anti-clerical or practical joker that the Bishop must be let out of the coal-cellar. But suppose the Bishop has been locked up in the wine-cellar, and from the obscure noises, sounds as of song and dance, etc., it is guessed that he has indiscreetly tested the vintages round him; then indeed we may properly say that there has arisen a problem; for upon the one hand, it is awkward to keep the wedding waiting, while, upon the other, any hasty opening of the door might mean an episcopal rush and scenes of the most unforeseen description.
— G.K. Chesterton
The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View from the Front Porch: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Do not run away from the problem. The problem with denying the problem is that it also denies the solution. Face it, it'll go away.
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
Smoking is a worldwide problem, almost in every nation and culture. The fight against these menace is so comprehensive that even the very same package of cigarettes now carry warning to its potential victims.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you have a problem , let it be because sometimes creating a solution can also create a problem
— Herbern Lebumfacil
The problem with denying the problem is that it also denies the solution.
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
You see, Max, the problem is not that the mouse is in the maze, but that the maze is in the mouse.
— Deepak Malhotra
There should be a device which can detect when the person is getting angry and should not let that person speak till he/she calms down. This will solve so many problems.
— Nauman Khan
If someone had problem with me, they had to find what it is, similarly if I had any problem with someone, I need to find out myself then only problem solves. Otherwise the problem will become the cause of break up in any relationship.
— Nutan Bajracharya
Borrow a little and if you can't pay it back, it's your problem. Borrow a lot and if you can't pay it back, it's the lenders problem.
— Willi Way
Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.
— Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
There is an answer to any problem in the Word of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every difficult problem is easy if you know how to.
— Debasish Mridha
You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.
— Debasish Mridha
Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.
— Debasish Mridha
You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?
— Dave Eggers, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Be the solution, not the problem.
— Debasish Mridha
Any problem, and I emphasize "any" problem, represents our inability to consciously connect to our Source in the moment.
— Wayne W. Dyer, Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling
It is a mark of maturity to deal with the problem rather than suppress it
— Dr. Emmanuel Moore Abolo
Sometimes, the best way of solving a problem is by letting it unsolved.
— Joe Mari Fadrigalan
If you have a problem with me, it is OK, because Mullah Omar does too.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Never Let go your task or plan. Problems are opportunities that come in a package that is not pleasing.
— Peter Isekiigbe DE Rock
Every Problem has a Solution.Then where is the Problem?		How TRUE it is !!!Let’s make a promise today to yourself,Now on you will not get disturbed because of any problem. We have been granted a LIFE 	to give happiness to others while keeping ourselves happy.My dear friends do not let it go waste unnecessarily!!!
— Santosh Adbhut Kumar
I didn’t think it was possible — but this situation has managed to get worse.” “But you’re so calm,” she observed.“That’s usually when you can tell everything has gone to shit.
— G.A. Aiken, Supernatural
I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening—like the old couple in Titanic.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
I have been investigating this modern problem of decline in readership and my conclusion is that it has little to do with bad readership and a whole lot with a difference in information speed. Frankly, the modern brain is much faster than the classical brain was in how it absorbs information and novels do not reflect this development. They are simply not dense enough. Too slow, not the right tempo - bores the shit out of a modern brain! There's the real problem: our brains have developed into different speed levels that authors cant adjust to. It has nothing whatsoever to do with quality: it has rather a whole lot to do with people claiming to be authors who are incapable of concentrating their ideas in the right sort of space, and rather smear out a few already halfbaked ideas over 30 plus pages. Hello! Do you think its weird a facebooktrained mind, capable of digesting enormous amounts of information at quick speeds, is bored shitless with that? The problem is not bad readership but rather bad authorship: authors that cannot adjust to the times. And since there are a zillion books published every day of authors that just cant keep up with the speed of the times, and criticism hardly exists anymore in modern society, it becomes simply very unattractive to read books, unless one keeps to the classics, which are books that are much more dense at essence.
— Martijn Benders
Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
What is the matter with you?""You want an alphabetical list?
— Elisa Nader, Escape from Eden
The problem with beauty is you will always be in trouble, when you don’t know what beauty is.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
A problem is a solution yet to be discovered
— Marc Torra
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
— Brandon Sanderson, Elantris
The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.
— U.G. Krishnamurti, No Way Out
To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
Make sure that you are a part of the solution not of the problem
— عبد الكريم بكار
Change the problem by changing your mind.
— Ken MacLeod, Intrusion
Facing problems is like looking at a sink piled up with dirty dishes. More you think more they stink. It takes only to roll up the sleeves and start washing them, one by one. In just ten minutes they are done.
— Vinko Vrbanic
How can they ask why I feel so angry? Do you see my problem if I never explain it?But then there's you asking me how long. Say something, it's taken me so long.
— Tegan Quin
if you fix a bug, sometimes there’s no guarantee won't bring up another bug
— cG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=
Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
— China Miéville, King Rat
Why did I sign up for this?''Because we grow by challenging ourselves.
— Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.
— Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction
That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have
—  that from which you cannot deviate.
Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap.
— Steve Maraboli
You see a mousetrap
—  I see free cheese and a fucking challenge!
These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
— Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
He has been known to devour men.” “He’s a cannibal?” Cadmus asked in horror. “Well, not really,” Daemon replied. “He is a Cyclops. He does not eat his own kind — just men and only those who challenge him … he does not hunt them.
— Sulari Gentill, Chasing Odysseus
The threat of punishment at home or school only served as a challenge to figure out how to circumvent the consequences when I did what I wanted to do anyway. I didn't fear the punishment, I just saw it as an inconvenience to work around.
— M.E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
I could definitely rise to the challenge of re-inventing comfort food. Neufchatel and low-fat sour cream were my friends! Low-carb pasta with omega-3s and protein were the greatest inventions ever! I'd had luck using all of them.Granted, even though I couldn't resist a good fatty slice of prime rib every now and then, and Fromager d'Affinois bursting into cream in my mouth was like heaven for me- and certainly I had the curves to show for it- but even if I didn't follow a strict diet, I could certainly cook one!
— Beth Harbison, When in Doubt, Add Butter
For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown.
— Marcus du Sautoy, The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Believe what you wish, but prove what you can.
— Carmine Savastano
Wesley was playing Soulcalibur IV. And because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’d challenged him.My God, I had to find something I could beat him at!And you know, something about beating the shit out of an animated character really made me feel better. Before I knew it, I wasn’t even worried about Mom or Dad. Things would be okay. They had to be. I just had to be patient and let things happen. And in the meantime, I had to kick Wesley’s ass… or try, at least.
— Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot.""That I will, unless he gets me under his.""Never easy, kicking upwards.
— Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that.
— Alex Ferguson
Sometimes those who challenge you most.. Teach you best.
— Pravinee Hurbungs
They say God gives the hardest battles to his strongest soldiers
— Anonymous
If I really wanted you to love me, I should have presented more of a challenge.” She burrowed deeper into a pillow. “My hair is a mess.” Mikhail sat on the edge of the bed, took the mass of silk in his hands, and gently began to weave the thick strands into a long, loose braid, “If you presented much more of a challenge, little one, my heart would never be able to take it.” He sounded amused.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Prince
The biggest challenge of Gods people is ignorance. Ignorance has become a mountain and a stronghold even in Christian churches
— Sunday Adelaja
You don't know much," he murmurs. "You know all the wrong things." "Wrong? Not to me." He shakes his head. He looks so sincere. "Try it," he whispers. A challenge, daring me, and he cocks his head to one side and smiles his crooked, dazzling smile. I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
Gotta love a woman that can hand you your own ass.
— Penelope Douglas, Until You
Swords. That is no faenorn ; that is slaughter.” The Grand Seneschal shrugged. “The Master did not protest. And, indeed, what weapon could he have suggested that would suit him any better?” “Fire,” she said. “He would not,” said the Seneschal. “You know he would not.
— Robin McKinley, Chalice
On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.
— Larry Niven, Ringworld
You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?
— Robert Holden
Always be challenged to build your life intentionally for possessions.
— Sunday Adelaja
God didn't tell us to suspend our minds he rather challenged us to come and reason, to use our reasoning faculties.
— Sunday Adelaja
Men and women that don’t respond with solution to the challenges of the era are human biomasses.
— Sunday Adelaja
Dare to challenge your current view of your world.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
When you allow yourself the abilityto challenge your doubts, to embraceyour deepest and darkest fears,that is when you learn how to bea healer and hero in your own life story~bns
— Bluenscottish
God brought every one of us into this new time to challenge us.
— Sunday Adelaja
When you start putting the Word into practice in your everyday life, it becomes your understanding and you will overcome any challenge by its power.
— Sunday Adelaja
An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it’s the way you perceive and handle it.
— Ashish Patel
You can be all that you wish to be. Go for the challenge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!
— Kemi Sogunle
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
— Pravinee Hurbungs
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
— M. Scott Peck
Being a Muslim is not a joke but a challenge. If you think it is, come and live in Pakistan where you will know about Muslims' enemies around the globe
— Faisal Nawaz Maitlo
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.
— Mike Gafka
CHALLENGE - Instead of losing motivation, empower yourself to prove detractors wrong
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
No challenge is bigger than us!
— Osama Bin Noor
Challenge authority
—  the authority of your own rational convictions.
A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The complementary arts of integration are far less well developed. This problem is at the core of human ecology. As with any interdisciplinary pursuit, it is the bridging across disparate ways of knowing that is the constant challenge.
— Richard J. Borden, Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Challenges and Changes are part of Life, accept them and move on.
— I Love the way you love me
The more challenging the obstacles in life, the greater the satisfaction in overcoming them.
— Murad S. Shah
The challenge is what makes the success worthwhile.
— Keely Barton
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.
— Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Okay", I breathed. "Then what will it take?" I was completely out of my element. Begging a girl to go on a date with me. This was fucked up.""Miss it."I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd just met the kind of girl books are written about.
— Tarryn Fisher, Thief
Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end, you realize that it was worth it all to get the the new place and new person you have become.
— Stella Payton
Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Every challenge in your life works out in the long run. If you can adopt this mindset, you’ll face your challenges with the knowledge and courage that it all works out in the end. You’ll no longer fear them and you’ll look forward to the lessons to be learned from every experience...
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language.
— Star Trek The Next Generation
...I felt it would push me out of my comfort zone and develop my skills. And that's what it's all about - do something new and learn something from it.
— Marlene Mienie
...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.
— Cheryl Richardson
His last thought flashed like a mantra over and over again.Let the challenge begin.
— Jennifer Probst, The Marriage Merger
People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
From within the mind we look out and envision, contemplating and interpreting each new challenge and the action we will take.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.
— Patrick Ness
We all know what needs to be done - it's the doing it that is the challenge!
— Amanda Gore, The Gift of Gratitude
In the future, we should anticipate seeing more hybrid wars where conventional warfare, irregular warfare, asymmetric warfare, and information warfare all blend together, creating a very complex and challenging situation to the combatants; therefore it will require military forces to posses hybrid capabilities, which might help deal with hybrid threats.
— Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
Don’t challenge the world before becoming a big fire
—  otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!
The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whetherit's in the arts, sciences, or business.
— Teresa Amabile
Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?
— Franz Kafka
It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.
— Whipplesnaith
Sir, no insult intended, but you said to me once that you don’t like kiss-asses and that you’d rather work with people challenging your perceptions.
— Mario Stinger, Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
— Confucius
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
— Benjamin Franklin
There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
— Wayne W. Dyer
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
— Virginia Satir
...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous.' His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.' Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.
— Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
— Robert Browning
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
— Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
And now, the end is near,And so I face the final curtain.My friend, I'll say it clear,I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.I've lived a life that's full.I've traveled each and every highway;And more, much more than this,I did it my way.
— Jacques Revaux, My Way
... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?
— Carrie Jones, Need
The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
— Alexandra Stoddard, Time Alive: Celebrate Your Life Every Day
It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.
— Anita Stansfield, Where the Heart Leads
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the
— Eagles, The Very Best of the Eagles
A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]
— Winston S. Churchill
I judge the world by my own lightsand I come by my own hand.
— Catherine Madsen
This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.
— Manil Suri, The City of Devi
If your weakness is love then you are extremely strong.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt.
— Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it.
— Erin Bow, The Scorpion Rules
This should be one of the basic attitudes—not to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to live it that way, that is his business. Who are you even to have an opinion about it? Even to have an opinion means that you are ready to interfere, you have already interfered.
— Osho, Tao: The Pathless Path
I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.
— William Ernest Henley
Person-centred counselling may be thought of as 'not enough'. In my experience it is. It allows for self-determination through an acknowledgement of a person's human rights.
— Suzanne Keys, Person-Centred Practice: The BAPCA Reader
Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic psychology argues for liberation, more open decision-making and a sharing of power and control.
— Keith Tudor, Dictionary of Person Centred-Psychology
Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one who could coax sugar from a lemon. Hers was the frontal attack with no inhibitions. She told the Nazis you could not trust Hitler, and they let her go. In the days of chaperones, she hitch-hiked a ride on a French destroyer along the coast of Crete; 'All quite proper, I had my cook with me,' she explained.
— Mary Allsebrook
The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?
— Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.
— Penn Jillette, God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.
— Dinaw Mengestu, How to Read the Air
If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. 
— Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.
— Stefan Molyneux
I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
— Milton Friedman
Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.
— Frédéric Bastiat
I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.
— Ronald Reagan
Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.
— Jud Barry
It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.
— A.E. Samaan
If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
...new discoveries show that American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early in World War I, and up to 1941, against Germany. The symbol was used by Americans in the French Escadrille Lafayette, by the 45th Infantry Division, and on Boeing P-12 planes. The discoveries are in the growing body of work by the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of 'Swastika Secrets'). He has previously shown how socialists in the USA originated the modern swastika as overlapping 'S' letters for 'Socialists' joining together in a utopian 'Socialist Society.
— James B. Lawrence, Cosmic Evolution
Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bureaucratic growth and statification were viewed as a vain counterdrift to "progress"—a counterdrift that could be dismissed as chimerical and reactionary. The anarchist was regarded as a forlorn visionary, a social outcast, filled with nostalgia for the peasant village or the medieval commune. His yearnings for a decentralized society and for a humanistic community at one with nature and the needs of the individual—the spontaneous individual, unfettered by authority—were viewed as the reactions of a romantic, of a declassed craftsman or an intellectual "misfit." His protest against centralization and statification seemed all the less persuasive because it was supported primarily by ethical considerations—by Utopian, ostensibly "unrealistic," notions of what man could be, not by what he was. In response to this protest, opponents of anarchist thought-- liberals, rightists and authoritarian "leftists"—argued that they were the voices of historic reality, that their statist and centralist notions were rooted in the objective, practical world. Time is not very kind to the conflict of ideas. Whatever may have been the validity of libertarian and non-libertarian views a few years ago, historical development has rendered virtually all objections to anarchist thought meaningless today. The modern city and state, the massive coal-steel technology of the Industrial Revolution, the later, more rationalized, systems of mass production and assembly-line systems of labor organization, the centralized nation, the state and its bureaucratic apparatus—all have reached their limits. Whatever progressive or liberatory role they may have possessed, they have now become entirely regressive and oppressive. They are regressive not only because they erode the human spirit and drain the community of all its cohesiveness, solidarity and ethico-cultural standards; they are regressive from an objective standpoint, from an ecological standpoint. For they undermine not only the human spirit and the human community but also the viability of the planet and all living things on it.
— Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism
Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.
— A.E. Samaan
No one should stand for nor chant the Pledge of Allegiance because it was the origin of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior (see the discoveries by the historian Dr. Rex Curry in the many books that cite his academic work)
— Lin Xun, Libertarian History
Regulated" rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.
— A.E. Samaan
It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
I think Liberals may tend to be more people oriented, whereas Conservatives are more task oriented. It makes Liberals look softheaded to Conservatives and Conservatives hardhearted to Liberals. I'm a Libertarian for the most part. I guess we're just assholes. Practical, critical thinking assholes who ask evil selfish questions like Why are we being punished for something someone else did or might possibly do?, Who is supposed to pay for this? and What about my children and their future?
— Rock Cowles
When libertarian sentiments take a populist form, it looks like this: a mix of anger, fear, anti-intellectualism, and fierce government hostility. Welcome to the Tea Party movement.
— David Niose, Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason
The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check.
— Murray N. Rothbard
A Libertarian’s just a Democrat whose vote doesn’t count. Same thing.
— Kenneth Eade, A Patriot's Act
In the first place, it would efface from everybody’sconscience the distinction between justice and injustice.No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a cer-tain degree, but the safest way to make them respected isto make them respectable. When law and morality are incontradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself inthe cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or oflosing his respect for the law—two evils of equal magni-tude, between which it would be difficult to choose.
— Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger “decline in the social contract”… "As a scholar, I'm very disturbed that we have more [media] articles about toxins in the home than the fact that we don’t have universal prenatal care, she says. “We’ve moved from collective concern about infant and child welfare into this very privatized focus on “my child” and this intensive child-rearing.
— Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.
— Jeffrey Tucker, Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo
The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned by powerful elites is the ideal we should seek, even if it has a name that is wildly unpopular: capitalism
— Jeffrey Tucker, Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo
As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the negation of liberty. It is the recourse to violence or threat of violence in order to make all people obey the orders of the government, whether they like it or not. As far as the government’s jurisdiction extends, there is coercion, not freedom. Government is a necessary institution, the means to make the social system of cooperation work smoothly without being disturbed by violent acts on the part of gangsters whether of domestic or of foreign origin. Government is not, as some people like to say, a necessary evil; it is not an evil, but a means, the only means available to make peaceful human coexistence possible. But it is the opposite of liberty. It is beating, imprisoning, hanging. Whatever a government does it is ultimately supported by the actions of armed constables.
— Ludwig von Mises, Liberty And Property
Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters.
— Naomi Wolf
The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call it decadent and dangerous.
— Jeffrey Tucker, It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes
MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is to keep the peace...Keeping the peace means no more than prohibiting persons from unpeaceful actions...When government goes beyond this, that is, when government prohibits peaceful actions, such prohibitions themselves are, prima facie, unpeaceful.
— Leonard Edward Read, Anything That's Peaceful
...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.
— David Welch, Stop the Insanity: Target 2014
God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is never too late to clean up your life.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future