Quotes About Challenge

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.

Watch me do it, Jeff! Watch me do it, square!

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll any stones out of his way, and must calmly accept his lot even if they roll a few more into it.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Las dependencias, supongo, son vicios difíciles de quebrar.

I don't want to be a prisoner of comfort.

Giovanotto è inutile che si arrampichi... qui è tutta pianura.

For the working man there is no abyss...that's why he jumps.

De la misma forma que una barra de hierro sometida a una llamapersistente se ablanda y dobla, sentía entonces que el metal de mi ánimo era gradualmenteablandado y doblado por las angustias que lo oprimían.

graba nu scurteaz? drumul, ci îl face doar mai obositor.

Camp-keeping in the Delta was not all beer and skittles.

Ninguna dificultad se compara a la de explicar pacientemente a un a persona mediocre la razón de nuestro desencasillamiento. De nuestro disconformismo. De nuestra INMORALIDAD.

el verso perfecto estaba al final de un camino lleno de espantos

The occultist G. I. Gurdjieff (1877–1949) demanded that a student, who was an inveterate smoker, quit smoking, and until he quit, Gurdjieff forbade any visit from him. The student fought for four years against the habit. When the student managed to overcome his habit, he very proudly presented himself in front of the teacher: "So! I quit smoking!" Gurdjieff responded, "Now, smoke!