Quotes About Challenge

A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.

Like slipping on a banana peel around a corner at eighty miles an hour. Piece of cake.

Or you could be a serial killer who specializes in reading books, then seeking out the authors and murdering them in horrible ways. (If you happen to fall into that last category, you should know that my name isn't really Alcatraz Smedry, nor is it Brandon Sanderson. My name is in fact Garth Nix, and you can find me in Australia. Oh, and I insulted your mother once. What're you going to do about it, huh?)

Who is a better swimmer?" Veil whispered. "It's the sailor who has swum his entire life, even if he encounters rough seas that challenge him. Who is the stronger man? It is the man who must pull himself by his arms.

You want to fight a god? You'd better have one on your side too.

We have grown complacent, timid. I fear that a little aggression, a little strife, might be exactly what we need. Or else…or else we will fall to the first wolf that sneaks past the gates.

You can beat anybody, Wayne always said, so long as you don't let them fight back properly.

Unfortunately, Alanik, the game takes no care for your interest. It plays you either way

Yes, there are worse places, but so long as this hellhole is considered the ideal, we'll never get anywhere. We cannot let them convince us this is normal!

Kaladin floated downward toward him. "Ten spears go to battle," he whispered, "and nine shatter. Did that war forge the one that remained? No, Amaram. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.

I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee.

bridges to be burned once I captured them.

I hadn't realized that this whole "water" thing was going to be an issue for me. I mean Ã¢â'¬Â¦ half the world is water, right? And we're all half water to boot. So stepping into the sub should have felt like a sheep falling into a big pile of cotton. Only it didn't. It felt like a sheep falling into a pile of nails. Wet nails. On the bottom of the ocean.

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

Almighty help any man who tries to keep track of your tangled courtships, son.

The storm catches everyone, eventually. Does it matter?

If stone met a man, stone might win--but if stone met humanity, then no force could preserve it.

The dog chewing on your ankle is pleasant compared to the one that used to be chewing on your head." "Nice metaphor," I noted.

Maybe you saw me there when you glanced at the rest of the room, to see what people look like when they actually have to work to get things." He drew his lips to a line. It seemed I'd touched a nerve. Excellent. First blood.

Where's your sense of adventure?" "I dragged it out back and clubbed it senseless for getting me into the army.

Sometimes, continuing to breathe is a tough enough prospect

We were supposed to be Defiant.

You're supposed to be some kind of wagon with legs,' Kaladin said to the thing. 'You're worth more than a village. Prove it to me. Get going! Forward! Onward!' The horse licked the rocks.

Perhaps, unlike you, not all people are accustomed to turning every single item in their lives into a competition," M-Bot said. "Oh, come on," I said. "I'm not that bad." "I recorded you trying to get Kimmalyn to have a tooth-brushing contest the other night in the barracks." "Just a little fun," I said. "Besides, gotta kill that plaque good and dead.