Quotes About Challenge

If Western civilization does not now respond constructively to the challenge to banish racism, some future historian will have to say that a great civilization died because it lacked the soul and commitment to make justice a reality for all men.

Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Our nation may be able to put a man on the moon in a few years, but it still cannot find out how to put a Negro in the legislature of Mississippi or put an unemployed worker back on the job. I have nothing against exploration of the moon or the planets, but if we can reach so high that we can challenge the mysteries and dangers of space, surely we can challenge the poverty and discrimination under our feet.

Remember this: You are the benchmark of your success - you define it. Don't let anyone else define it because if you do, you will fail. Appreciate those who support you and challenge those who don't

You and what army of snaggled toothed wine sots?

But there's a big difference between "impossible" and "hard to imagine." The first is about it; the second is about you!

Why didn't you tell me? It's all such a complicated mess." "Most lives are if you live long enough, my darling." "I've

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people at different times and under different circumstances and influences. And always growing, always creating themselves anew. How impossible it was to know another human being. How impossible to know even oneself.

Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery.

One does tend to assume that life must be far easier for others than it ever is for oneself," he said. "I suspect it rarely is. I daresay life was not meant to be easy.

When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that all life asks of us is to do our best to cope with what is handed to us.

She was not sure that her deafness had strengthened her character. She was not even sure she had met a challenge. A silent world was as natural to her as a noisy one must be to them, she reflected. But people tended to assume that deaf persons could function as people only if they learned to conform to a world of sound. What about the challenge of silence? Very few people of hearing ever accepted it or even knew that there was a challenge there. People of hearing feared silence...

It is hard, is it not," he said, "to have one's life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it?

life was not easy. And what an earth-shatteringly original observation that was.

Was something worth having, though, if it didn't present a challenge?

Lestrade had learned by more experiences than he would care to acknowledge that that brain could cut through that which was impenetrable to him.

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless

has not been wasted, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, this is too serious for dawdling, especially as

yourself in doubt or in danger—

Surely the game is hardly worth the candle.

I play the game for the game's own sake

Do you tell me that we have to sit down underthis? Do you say that no one can ever get level withthis king-devil?" "No, I don't say that," said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be looking far into the future. "I don't say that he can't be beat. But you must giveme time—you must give me time!