Quotes About Challenge

And it may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that's nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again.

She'd learned things she never knew, things she had no idea of knowing, and yet in a strange way it was the hidden message of Captain Scott: that victory and collapse were sometimes the same thing.

Because I don't care how often or willingly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because here's the truth: life is catastrophe

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

fight like you're the third monkey trying to get on Noah's ark." And brother it's starting to rain

View the problem as an opportunity to grow.

Frank," Andy said slowly, "I don't think the hellspawn wants to play checkers with you.

If you're stuck in hell, you might as well roast some marshmallows. Conversation,

I bent over to give my hair another shake, and glanced at my boots, along with the several dozen roaches climbing up them. Then I felt them inside the boots, between the suede and the naked skin of my calves. I

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost." DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy

I can't do it, if I finish that, I'll have to attach a seat belt to the toilet. Maybe an airbag too.

We must ask them to lay their hands on their hearts and tell us whether their favorite opinions comfort them in the day of sickness, in the hour of death, by the bedside of dying parents, by the grave of a beloved wife or child. We must ask them whether a vague earnestness, without definite doctrine, gives them peace at seasons like these. We must challenge them to tell us whether they do not sometimes feel a gnawing "something

It's the obligation of all writers to shoulder up against the wall of the permissible and shove . Writers must shove no matter how large the obstacle and without concern for the strength of those pushing back from the other side. This shoving is made more difficult by the fact that those pushing back are very often the same shovers who moved the wall to where it now stands--they nudged it forward as far as they could stomach it, and cannot tolerate a millimeter more.

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

Right,' said Ben. He leaned fowards, touching my (Kate) arm. 'You're sure you want to go on with this?' 'Are you trying to scare me?' 'You should be scared.' 'That doesn't mean I should stop.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

To push inward is hard, to descend even more so; it challenges our sense of who we are and where we came from. This is why, even though we are inundated with seawater, the advances of our oceanographic agencies do not match those of our space agencies.

There was a man Who made a boat To sail away And it sank.

Where all is fog, a blind man with a stick is not entirely at a disadvantage.

But in their initial jubilation they struggled to withstand a new reality in which they stood unshackled but remained unfree.

The average golfer doesn't play golf. He attacks it.

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. I'm not even a god.

Wisdom does not lie in accepting what the illusion shows us. It lies in trying to change the illusion in favor of what is real. You have already cast your shadow wide and done what many said could not be.