Quotes About Challenge

some things you endure for a reason

Life is a series of pulls back and forth.

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

It is 1979, a basketball game in the Brandeis gym. The team is doing well, and the student section begins a chant, "We're number one! We're number one!" Morrie is sitting nearby. He is puzzled by the cheer. At one point, in the midst of "We're number one!" he rises and yells, "What's wrong with being number two?" The students look at him. They stop chanting. He sits down, smiling and triumphant.

The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature, he said. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

One must indeed test the strings in this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Anyone who has sat through that slice of time, when you don't know something awful and then you do, will confirm that it is literally a bend in your life, and what is critical is what you choose next; because you can view a diagnosis many ways—as a curse, a challenge, a resignation, a test from God.

It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. "The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.

Alli took her husband's arm. "Your father was a faster runner and a better climber.

It's not about having the answers in life. It's about the search for the answers, the choosing to believe in something bigger than yourself that makes the journey of faith so challenging, yet so worthwhile… That is the crazy, glorious, sometimes maddening but always satisfying in the end, journey that we call faith.

A morte, assim como o crime, é lugar-comum. (...)Por outro lado, a lógica é rara. Portanto, manter uma atitude mental lógica, especialmente quando enfrentamos a mortalidade, pode ser difícil. No entanto, é sempre na lógica, e não na morte, que devemos nos pautar.

Was it possible, he wondered, that every human is sentenced to a particular lifelong exercise of will, with a duty to accept it with grace and strength?

He's in trouble, Rebecca, genuine, no-fucking-around trouble.

men pushing themselves as hard as they could push themselves, not exercising, but training, and perhaps not even training, but fighting, fighting the gravity the world exerts on all those who walk up on it, exerts seemingly equally, though in actuality not equally, not equally at all.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Fighting against one's Fate can weaken the blood. Sometimes, or perhaps most times, it can be fatal.

Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.

NI! Oh no! Not ni!

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not. And books that are over your head weary you unless you can reach up to them and pull yourself up their level.

You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.

One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.