Quotes About Challenge

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

Because the reward is worth the risk.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.

She constantly felt as if she were physically wading through air the consistency of thick, wet cement. The

Troubles. They stick to skin like glue, like gum to the sole of a shoe. They slide into the crevices of your heart, slither into your veins, and tug at you from the inside until they become something dark and heavy and not so easy to shake. The

Just make sure that you fight the battle God has given you, and not one of your own making.

He thought she'd slow him down. He could barely keep up with her.

Not everyone can have my level of adventure.

Wyatt Marshall hadn't come all the way to Russia only to fail.

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many

me for a minute and play devil's advocate." She leaned forearms on the table.

With all great loves there is first a great struggle

The main reason I have come here is to shuffle Death back to the place where it belong. That won't happen if I don't get to tangle with it.

And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting—it has been found difficult and left untried." G.K. CHESTERTON What's Wrong with the World

It's as if there's a bridge they need to cross. And it's like crossing over the ocean, Brette.

Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

Despite our best efforts, you came to the game at different times and as you know for different reasons. All the reasons go back to the fact that the game board has drastically changed. Know that it always does, though. War, drought, famine, illness, death, poverty. The game board changes underneath your feet. We did not want you to feel the pain of this.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

Once we started with the orchids, we've never looked back," he said. "I grew to be quite in love with them, you know. I like them because they're slightly evil and slightly mysterious, don't you think? In the early days I found it hard to make them flower, and when I did, it was a great, great triumph. They are a great, great challenge. They sulk, they pout, they ignore you. But it's onward with the orchids!

Talking to him was like engaging in a fistfight with someone gazing at himself in a mirror while punching you.

This is the smartest thing I've ever done, and also the scariest.

It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. It was getting harder and harder to stay couraged.