Quotes About Challenge

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

A fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

Thrown into a vast open sea with no navigation charts and all the marker buoys sunk and barely visible, we have only two choices left: we may rejoice in the breath-taking vistas of new discoveries -- or we may tremble out of fear of drowning.

And the enticement to seek a rose without thorns is never far away and always difficult to resist.

Al menos la maratón de Londres tiene un final, pero la otra carrera -destinada a alcanzar la elusiva promesa de una vida libre de problemas- no tiene fin: tiene línea de largada, pero no de llegada.

cuando uno patina sobre hielo fino, la salvación es la velocidad. Cuando

El precepto de amar al prójimo desafía a los instintos determinados por la naturaleza; pero también desafía el sentido de la supervivencia establecido por la naturaleza, y el del amor a uno mismo, que lo resguarda.

La posibilidad de contener y asimilar la imparable masa de innovaciones es cada vez menos promisoria, por no decir inalcanzable.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

Flux has heightened us into knots of staid tension.

Trying to build my dreams with what I have now, it's like building a forty-five story house with thirty-four bricks. (DoubleDuce.)

Instead of throwing traps into

There are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman