Bernard Malamud Quotes

I like challenges.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

I was raised to face any challenge.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

The best way out is always through.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

To the stars through thorns.

We shall either find a way or make one.

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

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

I just love challenges.

If somebody says you can't do something, find five ways to do it.

You have to fight hard to get where you want to be. I never had any backing. I just had to kick the door down and barge through.