Quotes About Challenge

Herbert George Jenkins

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Quando si perdono il senso dell'umorismo e il coraggio nello stesso momento, è segno che anche la partita è persa.

There's no question that the resolution of dissonance has always been the norm against which the occasional iconoclast has sought to make its mark

Seamos realistas, pidamos lo imposible

Both sides can make very strong cases for their positions, but sadly both sides have become arrogant and much too certain of their positions. Probably most of you who read this chapter will look at the verses on the other side (of your position) and say, "I can answer those verses easily." No, you can't! You are imposing the grid of your system on those passages that challenge you so that you won't have to be challenged. Let me give an example.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!

And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.

It's not normal, like chasing a little white ball and whacking it into eighteen different holes.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

You can't understand command till you've had it. It's the loneliest, most oppressive job in the whole world. It's a nightmare, unless you're an ox. You're forever teetering along a tiny path of correct decisions and good luck that meanders through an infinite gloom of possible mistakes.

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing." p. 5

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing.

It was a kind of Cadmean victory.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks

When somebody's too smooth like he is, then somebody else is going to get the rough of it I always say.

Who can take a single step with his head?

Even though it's hard, it's easy.

With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak. "What will you do if I surrender?" he asked. "Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon. "And if I don't surrender?" "I'll eat you just the same.

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

his reach exceeds his grasp. He tries to do things no one else would even dream of attempting-and he usually brings about three-quarters of it off. The last quarter sometimes trips him up, but the parts he does manage are remarkable. And no one else would have tried.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.