Quotes About Challenge

Religion does not prosper under prosperity;

Thomas had once watched a dog in a park, tethered to a tree, turning in slowly constricting circles until it had to be rescued and unwound. At which point it started winding itself anew. Heartbreak is a dog in a park on a tree.

and a motto in a frame: sometimes i feel like giving up but then i remember of a lot of motherfuckers to prove wrong

Some people float through life while the rest of us pull the barge.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself & see how you would do.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street.

Take a look at anyone's life. Take a look at your own. In the long fold catastrophe that makes up your three-score years and ten you will encounter many cusp catastrophes along the way.

This was an adventure, I told myself, an intriguing quest, and one that I would regret not seeing through at least a little further along the way.

Cortana's eyes glowed as she bent forward. "Piss off.

So most of my life has been lived in hell.

Nobody wants to read about happy people.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.

They killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change.

My gad, one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

It's like a man that's let everything slide all his life to get set on something that will make the most trouble for everybody he knows.

But that competitor was Death, and Roger Shumann lost.

Seems like it aint no end to bad luck when once it starts.

Well, Kernel, they kilt us but they ain't whupped us yit, air they?

That's what throws a man off—that extra alternative. Just when he has come to realize that living consists in choosing wrongly between two alternatives, to have to choose among three.