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Quotes About Challenge

Along with the friction, there must also be growth. This growth will nullify the effect of the friction.
~ Witness Lee
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!
~ Witold Gombrowicz
W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Fasten your jibs and loosen your mainsails, you lousy lubbers.
~ Wolf Mankowitz
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
~ Woodrow Wilson
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
~ Woodrow Wilson
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
~ Woodrow Wilson
We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.
~ Woodrow Wilson
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
~ Woody Allen
If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
~ Woody Allen
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
~ Woody Allen
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
~ Woody Allen
Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.
~ Woody Allen
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
~ Woody Hayes
Nothing in the world is difficult," said the Patriarch, "it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.
~ Wu Cheng'en
it ain't as hard as picking cotton
~ Wynton Marsalis
To ask the hard question is simple.
~ Wystan Hugh Auden
Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.
~ x malcolm iii
Si al final mis problemas no eran solubles, cuando menos serían adulterables.
~ Xavier Velasco
Uno sabe que tiene madera de villano cuando descubre en cada límite ajeno un desafío propio.
~ Xavier Velasco
Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
~ Xenophon
I felt an urge to conquer this new village.
~ Xiaolu Guo