Quotes About Challenge

In its true exchange, one cannot gain a great deal unless one is willing to dare losing all.

Kid, I can handle anything but the middle of the night.

Think of how hot a fire must be to call out the will of iron that is in the ore. Iron is strong against every force except the one that made it into iron.

For what is a curse but an unfair theft of strength. (Whatever is attempted in the way of improving your position brings back less than the effort exerted.)

No psychic reward might be so powerful as winning a dare with yourself. If you were really scared, and went through it, and came out on the other side intact, then it was hard not to believe for a little while that you were on the side of the gods. It felt as if you could do no wrong. Time slowed. You were no longer doing it. For good or ill, it was doing it. You had entered the logic of that other scheme where death and life had as many relations as Yin and Yang.

zabitiy, which means somebody beats you, beats you, beats you, until you are beaten down.

It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed

Vanity, complacency, and indolence were a curse, since bravery was an ascending slope and one could not rest on it. One must succeed in rising to every challenge except the ones that would destroy us needlessly.

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.

Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

as Confucius says, "Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred away.

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

To "remember Jesus" in their eating was not simply to recall a past event. It was to call on Jesus and invite him to transform what they were doing together.18 Jesus' presence at the meal could thus be an "effective" presence that challenged and corrected their eating practices.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

And, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

changes are so frightening.

You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.