Quotes About Challenge

Some commands are more easily given than obeyed.

Defeat is a disease, and victory is the cure.

None of us wants trouble, but I fear these are troubled times,

If it were easy all men would do it.

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

It is simpler for her, Catelyn thought with a pang of envy. She was like a man in that. For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

George R.R. Martin

Men will always underestimate you and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely.- Ser Godwin

Adventure stank. She boasted sixty oars, a single sail, and a long lean hull that promised speed. Small, but she might serve, Quentyn thought when he saw her, but that was before he went aboard and got a good whiff of her.

Choose. Fly or die.

Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

Pressure makes diamonds

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Just drive down that road until you get blown up.

Against every great and noble endeavor stand a thousand mediocre minds.

intelligent white men and women of New York City who are interested in the purity and preservation of their race should not permit the challenge of Crookmanism to go unanswered, even though these black scoundrels may be within the law.

Love, bumping his head blindly against all the obstacles of civilization.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.