Quotes About Challenge

You beat a dozen armed men single-handed? Oh aye, sir, said Wee Mad Arthur slyly, but it was nae fair, I had them outnumbered.

it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Anyone with half a mind could see that, said Tiffany. Miss Tick sighed. Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.

Make ourselves attractive to students? said the Archchancellor. Mr Stibbons, the whole idea of a university is that it should be hard to get into.

Being a witch meant going into places you didn't want to go.

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect.

Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography.

The whole of life was a game. But if it was a game, then were you the player or were you the pawn?

If he went over the falls now, he might get to the bottom before they did. That wasn't a good sentence, however he tried it.

Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run.

Tiffany was not afraid of heights at all.  She could walk past tall trees without batting an eyelid.  Looking up at huge towering mountains didn't bother her a bit. What she was afraid of, although she hadn't realized it up until this point, was depths.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

I wanted Bird Dog to play that game like I wanted a sack of hammers across the jaw.

I was not rebelling by smoking dope or drinking, I was testing ideas. I was experimenting with voice, what I could say and still be heard in an atmosphere of prescribed truths.

Then she turned to follow them, and the three demon hunters walked together down the hill.

I am trapped in my own snowbound valley. I am the only one who can rescue me.

Survival is only the first step.

Jesus said that it is as difficult for a wealthy person to enter the Kingdom of God as it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

Soldiers fear the frontier post, monks fear the Surangama Dharani!

Life is a river," he once told me, "and we all have to find a boat that floats.

The issue, of course, is not the mountain, whether that mountain is the dishes or the lawn or the title; or whether, for that matter, the mountain is Mount Moriah itself. No, the issue lies beneath the mountain in the realities in our hearts that make these mountains our battlegrounds.

Seek to do what is easy, comfortable and familiar and you will stay right where you are, bound to the past and bound to all the deceptions that have plagued you in the past, unable to proceed, unable to advance, unable to learn and unable to accomplish what you came here to accomplish.

this was going to be easy peasy.