Quotes About Challenge

every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage

affliction was not a liability, but an asset of great value.

El fracaso es un embustero con un agudo sentido de la ironía y de la astucia. Se deleita en hacer tropezar cuando el éxito está casi al alcance.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible." He knows all the rules which will not work. He knows all the things which cannot be done. This book was written for those who seek the rules which have made others successful, and are willing to stake everything on those rules.

Let us go out in the fog, John, let us roll up our raincoat collars and go on the streets where men are sneering at the kings.

What is a stratosphere fourteen miles from the earth or a sunken glass house on the sea-bottom amid fish and feather- stars unless a bet that man can shove on beyond yesterday's record of man the hoper, the believer?

At the same time he puts him into a state of crisis and makes him weak, because it is so difficult to explain things to someone who is always right, who always wins, who is absolutely sure of himself.

A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.

Añadió que nada en este mundo era un regalo: todo cuanto hubiera que aprender debía aprenderse por el camino difícil.

We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length-and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

One of the Greatest Forces in the Lives of Warriors is Fear. It Spurs them to Learn.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

Sometimes it's best to put your mind to work and exhaust it, rather than let it rest, in case it gets bored and starts eating you up alive.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

When a rat sneaks in, there's no way of getting rid of it. You give it poison, and it eats it. You set up a rat trap, and it shits on it. A rat is the most difficult thing in the world to get rid of. Because rats are cowards. Because they hide. Because they think they're cleverer than you.

La vida, hijo mío, es como la primera partida de ajedrez. Cuando empiezas a entender cómo se mueven las piezas, ya has perdido.

Time plays for the other team.

Hay dos cosas en la vida que no puedes elegir, Ben. La primera son tus enemigos. La segunda, tu familia. A veces la diferencia es difícil de apreciar

We still have a lot of history to live through, Daniel, and what awaits us is no longer child's play. Are you with me? To that end of the world, which, for all we know, might only be around the corner?