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Quotes About Challenge

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.
~ Anonymous
I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
~ Francis Bacon
To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.
~ French proverb
The beginning is easy; what happens next is much harder.
~ Anonymous
The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
~ Jean Cocteau
There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.
~ French proverb
A thousand men can't undress a naked man.
~ Greek proverb
2020 is quicksand— Keep calm and try to make it out alive.
~ Terri Guillemets
The problem is to be faced and the solution to be shirked.
~ Bernard Shaw, 1910
Addiction is a monster, and it's a really difficult monster to fight.
~ Stephanie Beatriz, 2019
Adventure is what happens when you just did something stupid.
~ Professor Bernie
Adventure may sometimes hurt, but monotony will kill you.
~ Author Unknown
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.
~ Andre Gide
I think it's about adventure. The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure...
~ Thornton Wilder
Difficulties were opportunities inside out, she assured herself...
~ Gwen Davis, Marriage, 1981
I think it's good to get knocked around a little bit sometimes. I think it's good to rise from the fire... It's a good opportunity to rejuvenate your motivation, to see that hill and go climb it.
~ k.d. lang, 1997
The fact that life is a grind is what sharpens many a man's wits.
~ Boston Transcript, 1923
His fortune is shipwrecked...
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786
the filmmaker must always seek a new tension with reality and constantly negate himself in order to continue to create a new artistic involvement. (?shima 1992: 48, translated by Dawn Lawson)
~ Isolde Standish
Life is a zigzag journey, they say, not much straight and easy on the way, but the wrinkles in the map, explorers know, smooth out like magic at the end of where we go.
~ Ivan Doig
Sve su Drine ovog svijeta krive; nikada se one ne?e mo?i sve ni potpuno ispraviti; nikada ne smijemo prestati da ih ispravljamo.
~ Ivo Andri?
Treba izdržati do kraja sa osmehom stjuardese koja zna da na avionu nešto nije u redu.
~ Ivo Andri?
Umetnost je nesiguran poziv koji nit 'hrani nit' brani onog ko mu se oda. Put umetnosti uopšte je neizvestan, varljiv i težak, a igra je ponajteža i najvarljivija od svih umetnosti, ?ak ozloglašena i opasna stvar.
~ Ivo Andri?