Quotes About Challenge

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.

It's easy to hate the game when your losing.

One day McKenna got hot enough

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.

We don't appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that's true for love as well.

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.

Sometimes the evolving terrain of life requires us to evolve with it. When those times come, we usually find ourselves quivering on the precipice of change as long as we can, because no one wants to dive headlong into the ravine of uncertainty. No one. Only when the pain of being becomes too much do we close our eyes and leap.

If I thought my previous employer ran a sweatshop, it was an afternoon tea party compared to being self-employed.

Nikos looked at me with concern. "We're in deep trouble, Bartolomeo.

Sometimes life drives you to do entirely new things, things you never believed you could do.

the only thing you can be sure of in this life is that sooner or later everything goes wrong.

And remember this. No victory is certain. No situation is hopeless. When you find yourselves in a hopeless situation, change the rules.

sürekli riske maruz kalmak, karakter duygunuzu iyice a??nd?r?r. Ortalamaya doÄŸru regresyon eÄŸilimini yenebilecek hiçbir anlat? yoktur; insan her defas?nda 'baÅŸtan baÅŸlar'.

not only did Horace Greeley, in less than a month's time, lose his wife, the election, his money, his mind, and his own life, but he also became the only presidential candidate of a major political party to receive no electoral votes.

We laugh & it pits the world against us.

Okay, so I'm the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.

You'd break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull when the mind swells.

God says, Which one of you fuckers can get to me first?