Quotes About Challenge

The gods like to make a man feel unprepared, so the wisewoment say

You don't know what you can do till you're tested.

Tananarive Due

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

I will pay you in trouble and terror.

Where were you and your God when he had me down in the snow-what return must I give you for that?

Have what you want, king, she sang at him. And then she threw something right at him.

My felicitations," he said himself aloud, and in Mercurio's tones. "You have got away.

It seemed that across some thirty paces of mosaic, candle wax and human forms, Leopardo had singled him out. The observation was not actually a threat, more a calculation. Romulan, sensing himself weighed, would neither glance away nor move. At risk of dislocation of the neck, he gave Leopardo back watch for watch. The tableau was ended suddenly by a blast of tenor trumpets from the head of the banner-draped stairway.

To confront the witch and her witchery, was, after all, turning out to be interesting.

Relax! Once you open the door to the knock of opportunity, you will never relax again.

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?

And since when do we do what the ship wants?" "Pretty much from the moment the air lock blew," Ryder snorted.

She'd kicked Klein's ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall. He really should marry her.

Excuse me," she said, her voice tight. "But if I'd known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it!

There was a lesson in here somewhere, he was sure. Or maybe he'd offended some ancient, pre-Columbian god while he'd been in South America -because this was a test.

What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.

I'm here to say that you can't make the troubled waters of life go away by defending yourself against them. You can only walk over those troubled waters if you offer peace to them and leave the safety of your boat.

doing good required taking risks.