Quotes About Challenge

The prophets make us partners of an existence meant for us. What was revealed to them was not for their sake but intended to inspire us. The word must not freeze into habit; it must remain an event. To disregard the importance of continuous understanding is an evasion of the living challenge of the prophets, an escape from the urgency of responsible experience of every man, a denial of the deeper meaning of "the oral Torah.

The role of religion is to be a challenge to philosophy, not merely an object for examination.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.

The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, It's a slip and not a fall.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Solo hace falta un mal día para sumir al hombre mas cuerdo del mundo en la locura! Así de lejos esta el mundo de donde estoy yo, a solo un mal día

Much of what feels like mastery in adult life is actually the avoidance of a challenge.

J.-P. Quélin: 'The voluptuous cruelty of filling pages is what kills us.

every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

When ambition is exponentially greater than resource, said Prahalad, that's when real innovation happens.

I guess I'm just afraid of whats going to happen. Because you can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

Few things are as potentially difficult, frustrating, or frightening as genuine learning, yet nothing is so rewarding and empowering.

it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.

Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty

To quote Bugs Bunny, it's mongoose season, and you're the fucking mongoose.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Did you ever find yourself in a place in life where you had committed to something, and you couldn't make it work?

I want you to realize that this whole thing is just a grand adventure. A fine show. The trick is to play in it and look at it at the same time. . . . The more kinds of people you see, the more things you do, and the more things happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living . . . ~ Edna Ferber's SO BIG

There were times when I cursed the trail and the weather for hours. But after you sulk and consider your options, you eventually realize that you can sit there and cry, or you can walk... It doesn't matter so much if you cry or walk -- I did a lot of both -- but if you turn on your partner, you'll never make it together.

Man was not meant for safe harbor.

Look - can't you see? The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.