Aja Brown Quotes

There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.

Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.