Quotes About Challenge

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I shall attack.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

God gave me this enormous talent, but He forgot to give me the courage to use it." ... "I don't think God forgot," Justin said. "I think He simply gave you a challenge that you haven't yet conquered.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

The idea that objectivity is best reached only through rational thought is a specifically Western and masculine way of thinking--one that we will challenge throughout the book.

I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Impegnarsi per essere naturali è già una sconfitta.

I fought tenaciously against what seemed to be my destiny; I struggled against my natural reaction with all my strength, because it was killing my dreams and forcing me to go in the wrong direction.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

it'd be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I've done that,' Mark said airily. 'It's a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn't need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.