Quotes About Challenge

In choosing what is difficult we are free, the mind too making its little flight out from the shadow into the clear in time between work and sleep.

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, Battles are lost in the same spirit In which they are won

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

There had been virtually no opposition, but three years of almost continuous action had taught Gerhard how, in times like this, the greatest danger was complacency.

to, for every man present appreciated precisely where that challenge was aimed. 'We all know how this works. No prey, no pay. Well we ain't going to get our hands on no prize stuck here like

attempt to escape

isn't that great!' But the

Samantha was just tired and angry enough not to take it. "And I'm a woman. You didn't expect that either," she agreed. "It's a crying bastard, isn't it? But then, I bet some of your best friends

toughening-up process

This is a miserable world, says the Sergeant. Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target --misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark.

I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me—and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it.

Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target—misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark.

our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day.

Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good!

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

Tarihleri hat?rlamam? istiyorlar. Aman Tanr?m! Ömrümde böyle bir ÅŸey yapmad?m, ÅŸimdi nas?l baÅŸlayay?m?

but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.

By 1911 I found it impossible to continue my pretenses to orthodoxy;

life must breed.

The cleverest defenders of a faith are its greatest enemies; for their subtleties engender doubt and stimulate the mind.

A man is as young as the risks he takes.