Quotes About Challenge

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

A cautious revolutionary? You're not going to get anywhere like that.

There was always something worse.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.

How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

So I took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference.

Door in the Dark: In going from room to room in the dark, I reached out blindly to save my face, But neglected, however lightly, to lace My fingers and close my arms in an arc. A slim door got in past my guard, And hit me a blow in the head so hard I had my native simile jarred. So people and things don't pair any more With what they used to pair with before.

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

He never got up high enough to see. That's why I don't advise your trying this side. He tried this side. I've always meant to go And look myself, but you know how it is: It doesn't seem so much to climb a mountain You've worked around the foot of all your life.

The play seems out for an almost infinite run. Don't mind a little thing like the actors fighting. The only thing I worry about is the sun. Well be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference, from The Road Not Taken, published in 1916.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference .

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

Whenever life becomes Tinkertoys, the queen may be sacrificed.

The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold. DANISH PROVERB

In many ways fast cruise is tougher than being out to sea. When you're out, you just do your job, and take in stride what comes along. During fast cruise you deliberately push everything to the limit. If it's going to break, better alongside the pier than 2,000 miles away from nowhere, or on the bottom in the Soviets' back yard.

Without enemies around us, we grow lazy. An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert. It is sometimes better, then, to use enemies as enemies rather than transforming them into friends or allies.