#hal

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#art #conceit #else #ever #half

Every great leader has incredible odds to overcome. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#leadership #leadership

In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society). ↗

— Norman F. Cantor

#martriarchal #leadership

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#challenge #genius #heroism #intelligence #trial

Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #life #problems #life

Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#thalia-grace #life

There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger. ↗

— Eric Bates

#overcoming-challenges #life

In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care? ↗

— Dave Eggers

#you-shall-know-our-velocity #life

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#life #overcoming #problems #life

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#job #life #life