Quotes About Challenge

Django: "Would you buy it if I told you that it's always darkest before the dawn? Or that there's a light at the end of the tunnel? Course there's always a possibility that it's an oncoming train. But still.

Why does anyone do anything impossible? To be bigger than the big bastard.

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

Always feel hungry for a daring life.

Be bold and fly toward the unknown. Discover a road that was never known.

Biggest mistakes in life is not to do one. Biggest risk in life is to be afraid to take one.

Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare.

Fear is the killer of fascinating change.

First, do what you fear the most.

Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you run around picking up the pieces of your head and picking them back together. The pieces never go back together in the same way.

That's the problem with life. It rarely gives you neat decisions wrapped up in shiny paper with a bow on top. Most of the important decisions in life are messy.

Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.

The impossible is just the possible you haven't met yet.

She had a feeling he could get into trouble in an empty room with all the doors and windows locked and one arm tied behind his back. Maybe both arms.

most things worth doing are not easy. But that does not make them not worth doing.

Never pick a fight you can't win, unless you're backed into a corner and don't have any choice.

It's not prettier or better than other places and it sure a shell isn't an easy place, but I know how to live here. And that counts.

cannot be disproved. Therefore, in every generation they must be fought.

political, or ethnic narrative is ipso facto false. Social scientists have described such theories as having a "self-sealing quality" that makes them "particularly immune to challenge.

I didn't create this world," she said to herself. "I only have to live in it.

Sometimes it takes a crisis for us to discover what we really can do when we have to," her uncle said. "You had to ride Sultan, so you did. Now you know how easy it is. It's as simple as that.

After all, we're in the midst of life—well then, we must fight a good fight—and we must become men. —Vincent to Theo, May 31, 1877

At Harvard, so the story goes, one of Carter's professors said that Black people had no history. Carter remembered his father's pride, his mother's courage, and Oliver's determination to learn. He remembered reading the newspaper. Carter spoke up. "No people lacked a history," he said. The professor challenged Carter to prove him wrong. For the rest of his life, Carter did just that.