Quotes About Challenge

There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things said Rob Anybody, that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.

He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune? Can't girls seek their fortune? I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.

Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Cake is not the issue here.

Everything is a test.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

SOD YOU, THEN, Death said.

Not all questions are answered, commander, but fortunately some answers are questioned.

But we don't do things like that! said Vimes. You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!

She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult.

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

He sagged to his knees. He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing cheques that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.

Trouble is always easy to find when you have enough people looking for it.