Quotes About Challenge

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Epitaph Den Tigern ertrann ich Die Wanzen nährte ich Aufgefressen wurde ich Von den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

Wer kämpft, kann verlieren. Wer nicht kämpft, hat schon verloren.

If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked line.

If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked one.

MUTTER COURAGE Mir scheint, ich hab zu lang gehandelt.

Wozu Türme bauen wie der Himalaja Wenn man sie nicht umwerfen kann Damit es ein Gelächter gibt?

Sapete come si sviluppa la perla nell'ostrica? Un corpo estraneo insopportabile, per esempio un granello di sabbia, penetra dentro al guscio, e l'ostrica, per seppellire quel granello, secerne calce; e in questo processo rischia la morte. Allora, dico io, al diavolo la perla, purché l'ostrica resti sana!

La gente che soffre mi annoia, la sfortuna generalmente è dovuta a un errore di calcolo » e « quando ci si trova davanti un ostacolo, la linea più breve tra due punti può essere una linea curva ».

Some know full well what Bernard Shaw had in mind when he wrote that "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Rather

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous.

and remember: There's no crying in pie baking. -The Bake-Off

Nobody knows (for real, for true) how hard someone is trying.

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

Figuring out whether a deal was worth doing was nothing if not an exercise in calculating risk: did the size of the potential return justify the risk of all the things that could go wrong? That's a question that every executive at every company has to be willing to tackle. A company that lacked the

That was the trouble with life—it never quite fulfilled its promises.

I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.

It's just a game," she says. Make no mistake: people who say it's just a game are out for blood.

Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?

Oscar of Between initially subtitled "A Story of Failures." Several writer-friends recoiled, "No one will want to read it with a title like that." The longer she lives, the more interested Oscar becomes in failure – what we consider it to be. How so often it's the unnamed force that shapes the story.

he comes across as alarmingly unpredictable, leaping out at unsuspecting passers-by and startling them with a moral challenge.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.