Quotes About Challenge

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

The only effective challenge to power is one that is broad enough to make isolation impossible, and intensive enough to cause repression to affect the normal life style of as many members of society as possible. By compromising and playing at class war, we lose.

can still smile sometimes, but by the time this thing is over I may not be a nice person. And I just lit my seventy-seventh cigarette of this 21-hour day. I'm going to lay down for two or three hours, perhaps I'll sleep … Seize the Time.

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Never tell me the odds!

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

I should have known better, of course. Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me.

As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

PossibleTo useWords provided one treat themAs enemies.

Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

Both rocketry and magic were rebellions against the very limits of human existence; in striving for one challenge he could not help but strive for the other.

Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever.

It's not easy being drunk all the time. Everyone would do it, if it were easy.

Arya, What are you doing?" "Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." Her hands flailed at the air to steady herself. Ned had to smile. "Which toe?" he teased. "ANY toe," Arya said, exasperated with the question. She hopped from her right leg to her left, swaying dangerously before she regained her balance. "Must you do your standing here?" he asked. "It's a long hard fall down these steps." "Syrio says a water dancer NEVER falls.

oh, don't look so aggrieved. I have never met a man I didn't provoke" ~ Asha Greyjoy (from a Feast For Crows)

Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first.

Between the plan and the fulfillment lies always the hazard: heartbeat flutters, knife flashes, horse stumbles, cancer grows, more subtle foes invade