Quotes About Challenge

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.

I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax

It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

Some battles take more than one ninja to win.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.