Quotes About Challenge

I myself am my only obstacle to perfection," wrote Kierkegaard.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.

What is there to say? Risk taking is painful. Either you are willing to bear the pain yourself or you try to pass it on to others. Anyone who is in a risk taking business but cannot face the consequences is no good.

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.

Like a woman, possibility makes demands, makes a person go all the way.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

My parish is bored stiff; no other word for it.  Like so many others! We can see them being eaten up by boredom, and we can't do anything about it.  Someday perhaps we shall catch it ourselves—become aware of the cancerous growth within us.  You can keep going a long time with that in you.

Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him, to confound him, to humiliate him by a finer effort or a more difficult victory? Without him we might perhaps give up. Having an enemy stimulates us, gives us strength. In him we hope to defeat the universe and the malevolence of fate.

But any great happiness is a bright light, a challenge to fate to do its worst. There must not be people who are too happy. They would discourage all the rest, to whom life grants nothing more than unexceptional moments, intermittent joys, roses that have to be watered with tears.

Come on, brain. Make words. Make. Words. "Hey

It may look like a boat with a hole, but it may be a hole with a boat.

The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Spiro, we have a problem,' he confessed. It was like saying 'walkies' to a bull mastiff.

Ci ritrovammo tutti a bordo per un consiglio di guerra. La mia proposta di sopravvivere un altro paio di giorni nutrendoci di patelle fu immediatamente bocciata.

Once you eliminate your number one problem, number two gets a promotion.

In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

Denise: "So your present project is ready to pass to the testing people?" Ralph: "Absolutely." Denise: "Okay, since you're so sure it's adequately tested, I'm going to make you the following generous offer: If fewer than three bugs turn up in your component during testing, I will give you a raise. But if three or more bugs turn up during testing, you won't earn a raise this year." Ralph: "Um . . ." Denise: "Um what?" "Could I just have the component back for a few little tests I want to do?

Since nobody's perfect, we need resistance to test our ideas.