Quotes About Challenge

A man surprised is half beaten.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

Life is a perilous voyage.

So often we search out the impossible, and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.