Quotes About Challenge

Life does not always yield its fruit easily, and when we cannot get to the top branches where the best and juiciest pieces cling, we must shake the tree. Shake it hard,

In life, he who risks nothing, gains nothing.' Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as it were.

There is no terror so powerful as the one never faced.

Well your full of cow pies up to your ears! I don't give way on the orders of rabble, or bow to Devall's uppity marshal. He can stuff his gold braid! Yes, up his tight arse where it will hurt the most, for all that I care for his posturing! These wagons will pass. Afterwards, you can shoot all the crossbolts you like, and ram yourselves straight to oblivion!

Adversity is the foundation of virtue

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

She interpreted this to mean that white subjects were struggling with the "awkwardness" or "exhaustion" of dealing with a black man, and that this interfered with their ability to take the mental test.

Yliopistossa kohtaa eloonjäämisvietin degeneroituja muotoja.

Karkealla kouralla elämä tahkoaa hymyä naamalta pois.

Sisyfos optimistina: Vierivä kivi ei sammaloidu.

Sanoin ihmisille totuuden, aina, sain itselleni lisänimen: Riidanhaastaja.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

the way to subvert the dominant paradigm is to have more fun than they do and make sure they know it.

doubted that men would give up their power without a vicious fight.

Respect the work that you've never done before.

If no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)

no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)

It won't be as easy, but lots of things that are worth doing aren't easy. It just takes commitment, discipline, and, most important, faith that it's all going to work out.

The problem, as we've learned over time, is that the further away you are from the fruit, the lower it looks. Once you get up close, you see it's quite a bit higher than you thought. We assume that picking it will be easy only because we've never tried to do it before.

You can only work exactly the same way, at the same pace, doing the same work for so long before monotony bites.

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse.

I don't even know what 'working hard' means. If you get to sit behind a desk all day in an air-conditioned room, there's no such thing as hard work.

Believe it or not, the bigger problem isn't scaling, it's getting to the point where you have to scale. Without the first problem you won't have the second.