Quotes About Challenge

whom only the excitement of combat exceeded the joy

No labour was more Heraclean than the labour of being Heracles.

Sisyphus is still there in the halls of Tartarus, pushing that boulder up the hill and getting almost to the top before it rolls back down and he has to start once again.

His humans were happy, yes; but to Prometheus such a safe, unchallenged, and unchallenging existence had no zest to it.

I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn.

We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game man ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat.

The poor bloody poet can no longer say "ope" for "open," or "swain" for "youth," he is expected to construct new poems out of the plastic and Styrofoam garbage that litters the twentieth-century linguistic floor, to make fresh art from the used verbal condoms of social intercourse.

When a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, he retorted, "If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!

Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done.

If you think it is hard to get humans to follow traffic laws, imagine convincing an asteroid to move along an ellipse.

My disability makes this rather a slow process, so I had plenty of time.

I did not expect to survive that long. Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse. In fact, things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde. But in order to get married, I needed a job, and in order to get a job, I needed a Ph.D.

Când aveam 12 ani, unul dintre prietenii mei a pariat cu un altul, pe o pung? de bomboane, c? n-o s? se aleag? nimic de mine. Nu ÅŸtiu dac? pariul a fost respectat ÅŸi, dac? da, care dintre cei doi a avut dreptate.

Espero que en el futuro, incluso cuando yo ya no esté, las personas con poder puedan mostrar creatividad, coraje y liderazgo. Dejémosles ponerse al nivel del desafío de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible, y actuar no por su propio interés sino por el interés común.

In order to understand the origin of the universe, one therefore has to incorporate the Uncertainty Principle into Einstein's general theory of relativity. This has been the great challenge in theoretical physics for at least the last thirty years. We haven't solved it yet, but we have made a lot of progress.

Der Weg aus dieser Falle ist der gleiche, wie der aus jeder brenzligen Lage: Wir schlagen so hart und so schnell mit dermaßen viel Feuerkraft zu, dass die sich wünschen, sie hätten sich einen anderen Job ausgesucht.

Single facts almost never slay worldviews, at least not right away.

Prayer means that God's miracle-working power is always a possible solution to whatever challenge stands before us.

We're here to fuck shit up

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.