Quotes About Challenge

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

Your storm, Thlayli-rah. Use it.

Bigwig, as he had predicted, was getting his head bitten off.

Can you run?" said Hazel. "I think not. Why you pop-eyed, back-door saucer-scraper—

It's like a great mist of folly that covers the whole sky: and we shall never see to go by Frith's light any more. Oh, what will become of us? A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

You've bitten through a bigger peg than this one I'm dragging.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that's the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn't the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.

You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control.

WE MUST HONOR our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down.  It's their duty to ridicule us, it's their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different!  And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card games philosophical: Ah, well, we can't toast 'em all . . .

This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.

No soy más Mesías que vosotros. El río se complace en alcanzarnos, con la condición de que nos atrevamos a soltarnos. Nuestra verdadera terea es éste viaje, ésta aventura.

There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from.

Sizi yenebilecek bir rakibe kar?? oynad???n?zda en fazla ÅŸeyi öÄŸrenirsiniz.

Getting old is like driving through snow that just gets deeper and deeper. When you finally get in over your hubcaps, you just spin and spin. That's life. There are no plows to come and dig you out. Your ship isn't going to come in, girl. There are no boats for nobody. You're never going to win a contest. There's no camera following you and people watching you struggle. This is it. All of it. Everything.

You're on, Ted," I told him. "Your big chance, boy. Don't blow it. Folks, this kid is going to dance his balls off before your very eyes.