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Quotes About Challenge

The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
~ Kate Capshaw
Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
~ Edith Wharton
To play it safe is not to play.
~ Robert Altman
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
~ Charles F. Kettering
In danger there is great power.
~ Agnes Whistling Elk
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
~ Ray Bradbury
I love the challenge.
~ Nancy Lopez
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
~ William Butler Yeats
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
~ Dr. Harold W. Dodds
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
~ Kay Boyle
In my business, you measure your respect by the enemies you make.
~ Theo E. Colborn
No one is expected to achieve the impossible.
~ French proverb
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
~ Graham Greene
Conquer but never triumph.
~ Marie von EbnerEschenbach
There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment- and surprise.
~ Christine Downing
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
~ George Eliot
We will either find a way, or make one.
~ Hannibal
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
~ James Lane Allen
Don't let go of the vine.
~ John Weissmuller
0 thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin Beset the road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestin'd evil round Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin.
~ Omar Khayyam
The iron entered into his soul.
~ Bible