Quotes About Challenge

Flying demanded more courage and faith than I actually possessed, and it wanted my best, my whole self. I would have to work very hard to be any good at it at all, and be more than a little mad to be great, to give my life over to it. But that's just what I meant to do.

You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt.

That's the problem with going into the world, isn't it? You actually have to face things you find you don't want to know.

Until a few months ago, it had been my general understanding that if you were a writer, you pummeled your own soul until some words trickled out of the dry streambed, enough to fill a saucer or a teaspoon or an eyedropper. And then you wept a little, or gnashed your teeth, and somehow found the fortitude to get up the next day and do it again.

Because it's not always easy to know how to live.

The games had prepared Ruta for his future, and should have prepared me for mine, too. The manoeuvres had become riskier and more difficult, but maybe each was the same when you got down to it. Jumping had taught me how to jump, hadn't it? I only had to look at Ruta to know he wasn't a child any more. Neither was I. The

In exchange for Pegasus's stall and my own bunk, D gave me two horses to train. They were both past their prime, dull eyed and recalcitrant, but I was trying to prove myself. I would have to treat them like royalty. I laboured over their exercise and feeding schedules, filling notebooks, trying to meet them on their own territory, and to find or understand something untapped in them, something no one had yet seen. Dynasty,

Races weren't supposed to be pageants or cocktail parties. They were tests. Hundreds of hours of training came down to a few breathless moments—and only then would anyone know if the animals were ready, which would rise and which would stumble, how the work and the talent would match up to carry this horse through, while that one would be left wearing dust, the jockey ashamed or surprised or full of excuses. There

because you can't chart a course around anything you're afraid of. You can't run from any part of yourself, and it's better that you can't. Sometimes I've thought it's only our challenges that sharpen us, and change us, too—a

Twende tu," she called out in Swahili as she buckled her helmet. I am going.

A new thing is good, though it be a sore place.

If you're ready to make the mad dash I'm game.

that came when you knew that if life didn't go exactly

Satans balls

Step so far outside of your comfort zone that you can't find your way back.

People did not really understand who they were until they had been tested, and then came the terrible surprise that they did not know who this new person was either.

We are in the middle of many changes, and this endless changing is become disorder and people cannot long endure disorder. They'll do anything rather than put up with it. Desperate things. Things that they don't want to remember later.

He said it was an "opportunity to excel," which basically meant the job sucked and no one else wanted to do it.

The one who dares a Lion should be prepared to die by its claws!

I didn't know how to live my life, and suddenly I was thrust into it and had no choice but to live it.

You're to need a lot more strength when you hear what I'm about to you

The struggle doesn't end just because you know the way. That's when it's only beginning.

Luchando contra molinos de viento

What were you doing fighting with me at Kirov, knowing all this was stacked against us? Raging against my fate.