Quotes About Challenge

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

There still remains, to mortify a wit,The many-headed monster of the pit.

This long disease, my life.

So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; Th'eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th'increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

Everything is sweetened by risk.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

If we expect to challenge the hearts and minds of men and women of the next generation, our hearts and minds must be challenged also. We cannot influence people for God if we are not learning, changing, and growing. Teachers who love God and love to study his Word reproduce this love in others.

But when the wheel next turns, it could turn in the devil's own direction. That's why we put our shoulder to it.

Alexander Woollcott

It should not be physically possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because mentally and emotionally it is impossible.

Make a plan," Dad always said. "And if that doesn't work, make another one and if that doesn't work, you're probably the problem.

I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice,we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you focus on something other than trying to get into my pants?" His lips curled. " I can multitask.

Don't you have somewhere you need to be?" she gritted. "The kitchen? The sewers? The fires of hell?

Thomas Mann that "a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It's staying in love that's the hard part.

Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Those who suffer a defeat are often branded by history as lacking in talent, whereas it is frequently circumstances that are unfavourable to them.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform

Experience teaches that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually when it begins to reform itself.