Quotes About Challenge

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

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

Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet.

I generally played a little fast and loose with my resources but I figured hell, a man's reach should exceed his grasp, especially in a stupid board game.

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Illidan glared at the Broken and his pathetic allies. "You are not prepared." A

William King

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you.

It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly.

Who will bell the cat?

I expect to lose. I always do. And life seems eager to exceed my expectations.

It's not easy, that's all I can tell you. Living your own life is hard. It's easier just going along, doing what they tell you to do.

What's the matter?" said the foul old man. "Birdie got your tongue?

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry—every man of every nation has done that—'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness

There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

His face looked like an argument you couldn't win.

A crime you're trying to solve is a temporary

The road, it seemed, was a river and he was the only one who knew the stepping-stones.

Kalian tidak akan menembak jika kami berdiri?" "Tidak jika kami suka tampang kalian." "Ibu kalian pasti suka tampangku," gerutu Kolya.

Orosius was a disciple of Saint Augustine. It was the purpose of the seven books to provide a defense of Christianity against the common pagan charge that Christianity accelerated, if it did not cause, the decline of the Roman Empire. Orosius met this dubious challenge by reversing its polarity. If things were in the fifth century bad, he argued, once they were worse.