Quotes About Challenge

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I've spent my life doing the opposite.

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.