Time to Strike Back Harder

Sayings Assembled by Rob Kall, Opednews.com

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds
alone suffice.
Whittier

We are so enamored of mental tranquility that we stop short at any semblance of
a truth, and go to sleep in the clouds.
Joubert

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.
Blake, Gnomic Verses

Without contraries (there) is no progression.
Blake, Marriage of heaven adn hell.


"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for
tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
Brooks, Phillips


"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our helper."
Burke, Edmund, Reflections on the Revolu tion in France

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Carlyle, Thomas

True contentment is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is
in it.
G.K. Chesterson

The response to incongruities is one of the highest manifestations of the
cerebral process.
Norman Cousins, Head First

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is
what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

"It is circumstances which show what men are. Therefore, when a difficulty
falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer ofwrestlers, has matched you
with a rough young man. For what purpose? you might ask. So that you may become
an Olympic Conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat. ...no man has
had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use
of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist."
Epictetus

We only go where we need to go or go where we want to go because we overcome
obstacles.
And I'm still overcoming obstacles today.
Danny Glover

We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in
life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all
sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new
grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest,
most penetrating best.
Kall, Robert


What is the heaviest thing... that I may take it upon me and rejoice in my
strength.
Nietzsche

What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it.
In thedifficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
Rainer Maria Rilke

*"I love to hear of worthy foes."
Scott, Sir Walter., LADY OF THE LAKE, canto 4, st.8

I am at my very best when the circumstances get dangerous.
Ted Turner

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest and therefore
when most was required of imagination to build at all. Limitations seem to have
always been the best friends of architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Risks are the spice of life, and this is the kind of moment that a test pilot
lives for. THe butterflies are fluttering, but you feed off fear as if it's a
high-energy candy bar. It keeps you alert and focused.
    You accept risk as part of every new challenge; it comes
with the territory.Chuck Yeager, Yeager
Chuck Yeager, Yeager

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolo Machiavelli

   "Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you
never
really knew.  They're what make the instrument stretch - what makes you go
beyond the norm."  -Cicely Tyson


We triumph without glory when we counquer without danger.
Corneille Le Cid, ii.,2. (1606-1684)

There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life
affording scope.
John F. Kennedy

When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe, you rot.
Ray Kroc (McDonalds founder)

Accept the
challenge so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work
worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

One thing obtained with difficulty is far better than a hundred things procured
with ease.
Talmud, Avoth d' Rabbi Nathan, Ch 3

What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it.
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
Rainer Maria Rilke

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a
bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond
his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the
mixture he makes a work of art.
E.M. Forster

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting
measures for a new undertaking.
Samuel Johnson

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer
him with love.
ghandi