Quotes About Challenge

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

The world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Poetry is a mug's game.

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself.

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.

We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty, instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.