Quotes About Challenge

To me there always seems a way to gain the opposite side of an obstacle. If one cannot pass over it, or below it, or around it, why then there is but a single alternative left, and that is to pass through it. I could

don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a lawyer and you know the game. You're my pal and the best pal I've had, Jim, and you'll do it for me. The dying man looked

I should prefer being thrown to the demnition ducks and drakes, he said moodily.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

The habit of questioning everything can be dangerous, for sooner or later it will surely bring a man into head-on collision with the unquestionable, and he will not be able in conscience to draw aside.

If you cannot imagine pain fully, neither can you fully imagine the resources you have in you to meet it and overcome it.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day....

His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, before dealing practically with his embarrassments, to extract from most of them a small tribute of amusement. (The Triumph Of The Night)

Sir Helmsley imparted this information in a loud, almost challenging voice, as he always did when he had to communicate anything unexpected or difficult to account for. Explaining was a nuisance, and somewhat of a derogation. He resented anything that made it necessary, and always spoke as if his interlocutor ought to have known beforehand the answer to the questions he was putting.

the things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.

He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life...

It's all stupid and narrow and unjust—but one can't make over society.

Fericirea, la unele firi e ca o alunecare de teren pe munte.

There's always a reason for wanting to get out of life—the wonder is that we find so many for staying in!

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

up to MacManus, who towered over him, he hissed, "I hear you are going to toss me in a blanket. By God! if you try anything like that, I'll kick you, I'll bite you, I'll kick you in the balls, I'll do anything to you—you'd better leave me alone." This speech had the desired effect.38

straight into the ambush de Morès

Well warned to beware with whom he dar'd to dallie.

Guy thought of the Greek word agon , wasn't it at once an athletic contest and a style of suffering, an agony?

As you can hear, it's difficult to learn another language after forty.

a stony road, hard on the feet. I would beg for us to sit down but you discouraged it, knowing that sitting was fatal, because of the willpower required to get up again.