Quotes About Challenge

the same broken promise of a life of ease. I

If I'm wrong, you can prove it on me and I'll eat my chair cushion.

Go on," he said, in a voice the size of a marble.

draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising

He said: "Go —— yourself.

Tell them this: somehow our two worlds stand linked again by some dark power of Tsurani origin. It moves against the Kingdom. It is power beyond human understanding, perhaps power to challenge the gods themselves.

Still, few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.

No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.

It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to turn this setback into an advantage,' he wondered silently.

Your human gods love to present you with such riddles and challenges, or so it has seemed to me for most of my life... You often seem to prefer difficult choices when simple alternatives are available; it is a constant source of amazement to my kind.

He could not challenge him on that and besides, what he said was truth, which at this moment was dangerous.

Raymond E. Feist

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

Go to hell, but keep moving once you get there, come out the other side.

You are making something, a life, a self, and it is an intensely creative task as well as one at which it is more than possible to fail, a little, a lot, miserably, fatally.

A woman goes walking down a thousand-mile road. Twenty minutes after she steps forth, they proclaim that she still has nine hundred ninety-nine miles to go and will never get anywhere.

What you imagine as overwhelming or terrifying while at leisure becomes something you can cope with when you must-there is no time for fear.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

The status quo would like you to believe it is immutable, inevitable, and invulnerable, and lack of memory of a dynamically changing world reinforces this view.

We are winning," said the graffiti in Seattle, not "We have won." It's a way of telling in which you can feel successful without feeling smug, in which you can feel challenged without feeling defeated.

The boiling point of water is straightfoward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious.

That circle became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one.

we should resist on principle, even though it might be futile.

It's life, Sidda. You just climb on the beast and ride.