Quotes About Challenge

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse trouble.

Adversity breeds toughness, and the tough succeed. And survive.

hole. The temperature climbed.

Be daunted, but not defeated.

I look at it and I say, You've got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. - Life of Pi

She looks like what fishermen don't want after hours spent cutting debris out of their nets.

Quand on ne trouve pas la solution à son malheur, on lui cherche un coupable.

La coppia è la prova più terribile che Dio possa affliggerci.

Moi je dis, le couple, la plus terrible épreuve que Dieu puisse nous infliger.

Les enfants absorbent notre vie, er la désagrègent. Les enfants nous entraînent au désastre, c'est une loi.

Les enfants absorbent notre vie, et la désagrègent. Les enfants nous entraînent au désastre, c'est une loi.

Un matrimonio es como una ciénaga peligrosa que succiona sin fin las faltas de los cónyuges.

The course of one's life is a difficult thing. -from Diary of My Sixteenth Year

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

The competition always stayed close on our heels, but we managed to keep innovating and improving our products.

When there is no crisis, the wise leader or CEO will invent one. Not by crying wolf but by challenging the employees with change.

As workers in Alaska built 800 miles of pipeline through wilderness all but uninhabited by humans, workers in Washington took up the challenge of pushing 100 miles of rapid transit through a long-settled region densely populated by lawyers.

progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.

He promised them a class that would challenge their own beliefs about the redemptive humanity of what is commonly called 'Art'. 'Art is the Western myth,' announced Howard, for the sixth year in a row, 'with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

Getting anything out of my husband is like trying to squeeze water out when you're stoned.

And drunk men take dares like they take breaths.

But the lesson I take from this is not that the lives in that novel were illusory but rather that progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.