The Challenge is to Become Your Greatest Self

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Choose to be Positive

Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Beyond Failure

Why is This Happening?
      

Dare to Become Your Greatest Self

 

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Choose to be Positive

Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Beyond Failure

Why is This Happening?
      

 

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Choose to be Positive

Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Beyond Failure

Why is This Happening?
      

Strive to Become Your Greatest Self

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Choose to be Positive

Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Beyond Failure

Why is This Happening?
      

Become Your Greatest Self

 

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Choose to be Positive

Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Beyond Failure

Why is This Happening?
      

Becoming Our Greatest Selves

 

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Choose to be Positive

Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Beyond Failure

Why is This Happening?
      

Challenged to Become Our Greatest Selves

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Choose to be Positive

Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Beyond Failure

Why is This Happening?
      

Proclaim the Truth

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak,
the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it.
- Henry George

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts,
declare the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere:
They only live who dare.
- Voltaire

The truth is always something that is told,
not something that is known.
If there were no speaking or writing,
there would be no truth about anything.
There would only be what is.
- Susan Sontag

Further reading: Take Action - Now

Speaking Your Word

Calling Out Injustice

To Live, Not Merely To Exist
     

All Life is a Chance

Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain

One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
- Robert Kiyosaki

Further reading: All Life is a Risk

The Jump is So Frightening - Mary Anne Radmacher

Live Your Life Fully
   

Rejoice in the Unknowing

What worries you, masters you.
- John Locke

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton

This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie

Life is lived in the mists;
little is fully visible; less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Edge of All You Know

Rejoice in the Way Things Are

An Unknowable Future

Knowledge is Soon Changed
      

Face Up To Difficulties

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Further reading: Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Choosing to be Positive

Why is This Happening?

Beyond Failure
      

Obstacles Offer Us Choices

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

We have a choice of how we view
the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Photo is of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s.

Further reading: Why is This Happening?

You Need Courage

Draw from Suffering
      

Never Fear the Opinions of Others

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak,
the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it.
- Henry George

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts,
declare the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere:
They only live who dare.
- Voltaire

The truth is always something that is told,
not something that is known.
If there were no speaking or writing,
there would be no truth about anything.
There would only be what is.
- Susan Sontag

Further reading: Take Action - Now

Speaking Your Word

Calling Out Injustice

To Live, Not Merely To Exist
     

Might an Inconvenience be an Adventure Instead?

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton

Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie

This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is lived in the mists;
little is fully visible; less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What worries you, masters you.
- John Locke

Further reading: Rejoice in the Way Things Are

The Edge of All You Know

Knowledge is Soon Changed

An Unknowable Future
       

Empowered by Our Difficulties

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.
- Epictetus

Further reading: Difficulties Offer Opportunities

Why is This Happening?

Choosing to be Positive

Beyond Failure

Have Courage and Leap

Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs

The jump is so frightening between
where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to God.
- Anthony Dalla Villa

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach

Further reading: Faith Plus Action

Serenity in Times of Crisis

Be Unstoppable

Again Tomorrow
     

Take Charge of Your Own Life

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

We have a choice of how we view
the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Photo is of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s.

Further reading: Draw from Suffering

You Need Courage

Why is This Happening?
      

Dare to Take Risks

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have
the possibility of being great.
- Cher

There's something liberating about not pretending.
Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
- Drew Barrymore

With courage you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair

People do not wish to appear foolish.
To avoid the appearance of foolishness,
they are willing to remain actually fools.
- Alice Walker

All Life is a risk - even crossing the street, or sitting in your easy chair.
So relax, don't worry, and live the most productive and enjoyable life you can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Live Your Greatest Life

The Myth of Security

Courage to Overcome Fear

Live Courageously
      

Proclaiming Truth

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it.
- Henry George

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts,
declare the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere:
They only live who dare.
- Voltaire

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak,
the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The truth is always something that is told,
not something that is known.
If there were no speaking or writing,
there would be no truth about anything.
There would only be what is.
- Susan Sontag

Further reading: Calling Out Injustice

Speaking Your Word

Take Action - Now

To Live, Not Merely To Exist
    

The Whole Leap

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Looking Foolish

Live Courageously

Take Action - Now

Live Your Greatest Life

The story behind "the jump is so frightening" - Mary Anne Radmacher

Be Unstoppable