Quotes About Challenge

Truth be told, are you ready to defend yourself?

Dare to oppose yourself.

Why is this so hard?" I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. "Everything worth fighting for is hard.

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

However writhes the snake the scales must follow.

When the only tool that you have is a hydrospanner, every problem looks like something that needs to be torqued.

The revolution had been largely successful, but as it turned out, the struggle was much more fun than the victory.

The Browns were holding a council of war in the dining room, and Mr. Brown was fighting a losing battle.

And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?

Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do.

it was the insoluble problems—the false leads and the cold cases—that reflected the true nature of things.

He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over again.

A]dventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result -- and have been since at least the time of Odysseus -- of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventure happens in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home.

But there was nothing at all safe about marriage. It was a doubtful enterprise, a voyage in an untested craft, across a hostile ocean, with a map that was a forgery and with no particular destination but the grave.

Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move.

In my experience, Detective, it's all middle game.

adventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold.

The thing that made space flight difficult was the thing that, to my grandfather, made it beautiful: To reach escape velocity, my grandmother, like any spacefarer, would be obliged to leave

From the first that was a part of his attraction to her: not her brokenness but her potential for being mended and, even more, the challenge that mending her would pose. He thought that if he took on the job of loving this broken woman, some measure of sense or purpose might be returned to his life. He thought that in mending her, he might also be mended.

grappling in a hernia truss with steel kegs of Yuengling. For

From the first that was a part of his attraction to her: not her brokenness but her potential for being mended and, even more, the challenge that mending her would pose. He

I guess the basic reason I run is that I think a body, like a brain, should be used, stretched, forced to its limits...I feel sorry for those who will never know the desperate pound of 180 beats per minute, or the golden afterglow of recovery from it. The body, like a flying machine, can be operated with greater enjoyment, poise, and confidence if one has explored its limits.

Everybody's got a cage that keeps out the sharks. Those who open the door and venture out do so at their own risk.