Quotes About Challenge

So do men oftentimes find their greatest cross where they expected their greatest comfort.

gospel, and a cheap ministry, and a cheap membership, and a cheap communion of saints, etc. But when his obedience comes to be chargeable, when his obedience to divine commands may cost him his health, his strength, his liberty, his riches, his estate, his friends, his credit, his name, etc., then he retires, then he cries out, It is a hard saying, who can bear it? John 6:60. This is a hard commandment, who can obey it?

With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but 'tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.

Proteste herauszufordern ist meistens Taktik, Proteste niederzuschießen ist meist ein Verbrechen, aber Proteste herauszufordern um sie niederzuschießen, ist Perversion.

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas H. Huxley

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.

Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.

Humanity appears upon the scene, hand in hand with trouble

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?

But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

It wouldn't do, Mr Oak. I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know. Oak cast his eyes down the field in a way implying that it was useless to attempt argument.

Next day the weather was bad, but she trudged on, the honesty, directness, and impartiality of elemental enmity disconcerting her but little.

And yet to every bad, there is a worse.

Aber manche Frauen brauchen nur die Herausforderung, damit sie ihr gewachsen sind.

Algunas mujeres sólo necesitan una emergencia para demostrar que son capaces de manejarla.

Waste and stupidity get you the worst, that's what he said. Use this time and it'll temper you. Now's the hardest test—not letting rage and frustration keep you from thinking. It's the core of whether you can command or not.

You said that I, who see more than you, am insane. I, who pushed the world so much further than you, am insane. I have dared more than you, I have pressed my unique seal so much deeper in the earth, where it will last longer than your dust...you owe me awe.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Problem solving is hunting. It's a savage pleasure and we're born to it.

Will Graham, the keenest hound ever to run in Crawford's pack, was a legend at the Academy; he was also a drunk in Florida now with a face that was hard to look at, they said.