Quotes About Challenge

They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

Adventure is something that happens to someone else. When it's happening to you, it's only trouble.

Failure is easy. This is a badge of shame.

But the Bible is anything but superficial. The Bible is not an easy read, and nature is not a simple study.

Kemiskinan itu bukan alasan, dia adalah satu kondisi. Seperti gravitasi, dia mempengaruhi semuanya

How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor.

But perhaps one day I will be entrusted with daughters of my own, and if so, I swear I will not see their minds molded into society's simpering ideal of womanhood. Oh how I would like to raise writers and artists who would make the world acknowledge what women can do!

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.

The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive, inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.

Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.

Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy.

I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."