Quotes About Challenge

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.

When first we met, we did not guess, That love would prove so hard a master...

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again.

Jove strikes the Titans down Not when they set about their mountain-piling But when another rock would crown the work.

Then welcome each rebuffThat turns earth's smoothness rough,Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!Be our joys three parts pain!Strive, and hold cheap the strain;Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

He ventured neck or nothing—heaven's successFound, or earth's failure.

You call for faith:I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say,If faith o'ercomes doubt.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

All poetry is difficult to read,—The sense of it is, anyhow.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Every obstacle is a gift, every problem is an opportunity for growth.

Till crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell.

Man is a soldier and life must be fought.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.