Quotes About Challenge

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

The Castle in the Air is far from here, and the one stairway which leads to it is guarded by fierce and black-hearted demons.

And as John F. Kennedy described the ideals behind what would become the Peace Corps, he issued a challenge to the students who had assembled in Ann Arbor on that October night: "on your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country," he said, will depend the answer whether a free society can compete. I think it can," he said.

The great majority of Americans, however, viewed the growth of authoritarian collectivist ideologies in Europe during the Great Depression with suspicion and fear. Although Communism had in many ways been the original challenge, it was not difficult to see similarities between the Communist faith – especially in its Stalinist form – and other contemporary political directions, such as fascism or national socialism. They all represented a challenge to America.

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better 

Homo sapiens is a spider trying to crawl out of a basin. The higher he crawls, the steeper the hill. Sooner or later, down he goes. So long as he's on the bottom, he can get along quite nicely, but as soon as he starts climbing, he begins to slip. And the higher he climbs the farther he falls. It doesn't matter which direction he tries. He can make civilization after civilization, but every time, long before he begins to be really civilized, skid!

Whenever you come to a fork in the road, always choose the harder path, otherwise the path of least resistance will be chosen for you.

Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, By dang, I can do it! then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

She married for adventure.

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.

Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

The true meaning of courage is to be afraid—and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, take the leap anyway. Ready. Set. Go.

What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.

Takut itu nyata. Kita semua telah mengalaminya. Dan itu bisa menjadi rintangan jalan yang sangat kuat. Makna yang sesungguhnya dari keberanian adalah takut - tetapi dengan lutut gemetar dan hati berdebar, Anda tetap melompat.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

I told him just so he wouldn't be fooled by the bright lights of Istanbul into thinking that life was somehow easy.

If the lycée teachers studying this book in their class are now beginning to get nervous, they can advise the students to skip this page.

If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.

Y mientras pronunciaba estas palabras, comprendió lo difícil que era decir la verdad y resultar sincero al mismo tiempo.

Dok je prolazio pokraj prazne armenske jednokatnice prozora okovanih daskama, Ka je, osluškuju?i svoj dah i škripu svojih koraka, za?uo kako ga dozivaju sre?a i život, jasno i izazovno kao da ih prvi put ?uje. A njemu je bilo jasno jedino to da u sebi ima dovoljno snage da im - okrene le?a.