Quotes About Challenge

La dificultad no está en las nuevas ideas, sino en superar las antiguas que, para todos los que hemos sido educados como la mayoría, se ramifican hacia cada rincón de nuestra mente.» John Maynard Keynes

Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. —Bruce Lee

Seek out and embrace people who challenge you. You will learn more from them than from the folks who hold you to lower standards.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.

Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

Publish and be damned.

resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark

Who are we to combat poisons older than history and mankind

Nichtsdestotrotz habet Ihr starke Hände, ein Messer und eine Pistole, und es ist nicht schwer, ein Grab zu schaufeln.

Lovecraft also likes to play with the idea of fate. In many of Lovecraft's stories the protagonist is not in control of his own actions but must follow the path of fate. Many of his characters would be free from danger if they were simply able to run away but this is not possible as the course of their fate must be followed.

Boys, here's where I cash in my chips.[House judiciary committee chairman Hatton Summers(D) to Vice President John Nance Garner about Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to 'pack the court'.]

Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

My sport is your sport's punishment.") Usually

If you get into danger, either you perish or you escape.

It's frustration which makes creativity possible.

For him, the writer should be the very devil, a disturber of dreams and wrecker of fatuous utopias, the bringer-in of reality, and rival of God in his wish to make worlds.

Because it is about that which we can't be prepared for—the great test we men have passed before, but have no way of knowing we will pass again.

And you'd get point A followed by points B and C, and on the one hand F, and on the other foot G, until you could see the whole alphabet stretching ahead, each letter a Sahara in itself to be crawled across

Death is the real reason why property and acquisition can never become a true political principle. A social system based essentially on property cannot possibly proceed toward anything but the final destruction of all property. The finiteness of personal life is as serious a challenge to property as the foundation of society, as the limits of the globe are a challenge to expansion as the foundation of the body politic.

Het begrip 'objectieve tegenstander', waarvan de identiteit wijzigt in overeenstemming met de heersende omstandigheden - in die zin dat, zodara één categorie geliquideerd is, de oorlog kan worden verklaard aan een ander.

Philosophy suffered more from modernity than any other field of human endeavor.

Machiavelli knew enough to say the following: "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.