Quotes About Challenge

But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.

This is the kind of room poets are supposed to work in, the kind of room that threatens to break your spirit and forces you into constant battle with yourself.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed them you were willing to push back, at which point you would earn their respect.

Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes. Moments of crisis produce a redoubled vitality in men. Or, more succinctly perhaps: Men don't begin to live fully until thier backs are against the wall.

what at first had seemed to be no more than a small bump in the road was turned into a full-scale misfortune

La única constante en este mundo es la mierda, muchacho.

Fuck Edison and his goddamned lightbulb.

That work was what appealed to him most about their conversations. Tom liked having to think fast, and he found it invigorating to push his mind in unaccustomed directions for a change, to be forced to stay on his toes.

It was the best thing that could have happened to him, it was the worst thing that could have happened to him.

every time Mike challenged him he would have to think harder about what he believed in himself, and how could you ever learn anything if you only talked to people who thought exactly as you did?

L'unica costante a questo mondo è la merda, ragazzo mio. Ci stiamo in piedi a mollo ogni giorno, ma a volte, quando arriva alle ginocchia o anche più su, devi solo tirarti fuori e andare avanti.

Bir ölüm ferman? ç?karmak zaten yeterince kötüydü, ama ölmü? bir adam için çal??mak en az onun kadar kötüydü.

when I finally hit bottom.

Find yourself drowning in a sea of trouble, and hard work can become the raft that ends up keeping you afloat.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.

If everyone keeps asking you the same questions, maybe you have to come up with new answers just to stay awake.

De obicei la lucrurile complicate-s bun. Alea simple m? cam încurc în ele.

La gente te importunaba por la fuerza de la costumbre,molestaba por el simple placer de molestar, y seguían pinchándote hasta que les demostrabas que tú también estabas dispuesto a fastidiarla, momento en el cual te ganabas su respeto.

Angesichts der Schwierigkeiten, vor die uns die reale Welt stellte, war es wohl ganz verständlich, daß wir ihr so oft es ging den Rücken kehrten.

one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.

were not ready for freedom.

Crip up or grip up Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Criptum vexo vel carpo vex.

Listing hard to the right like a drunken seaman with an inner ear infection.