Quotes About Challenge

beyond the very extremity of fatigue-distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own,—sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction, never pass those early critical points.

If I should now utter piercing shrieks and act like a maniac on this platform, it would make many of you revise your ideas as to the probable worth of my philosophy.

The strenuous life tastes better.

The things that ask the most of us are the things most worth having.

Yeah, but where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

But sometimes it ain't the strongest wins. And especially when the stronger thinks, because it's stronger, that it ain't got to try to fight.

The unwritten novel has a basilisk's stare.

You see what's going on," Dane said. Miserably he ran his hands over his head. "That is a picket line, and I am in trouble." "A picket? The cats and birds?" Dane nodded. "The familiars are on strike.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

May you always live in interesting times.

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an artî

You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you are coming out the other side.

The soldier who retreated 50 paces jeered at the one who retreated 100 paces

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

Climb mountains to see lowlands.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

This is not a feel-good book. (But I am confident you will feel good after reading it.) It is not a motivational book. (But I promise you will be motivated once you are done.)

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.