Quotes About Challenge

Just when things looked their worse, they changed for the best. I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety.

A rampart berg 150 ft. high and a quarter of a mile long lay at the edge of the loose pack, and we sailed over a projecting foot of this berg into rolling ocean, stretching

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.

I don't know what it means for others, but for a follower of Jesus Christ, what it means to live on the edge is to stand at the epicenter of where the kingdom of God confronts the kingdom of darkness. When evil raises its ugly head, taunting God and tormenting the weak, the adventurer rises up and moves toward the challenge. Like a guided missile, the adventurous spirit moves toward its greatest challenge.

If you are comfortable with where you are, you will never know how far you can go. If you refuse to change, then you refuse to grow.

SOMEHOW WE ALL KNOW THAT TO PLAY IT SAFE IS TO LOSE THE GAME.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

It was sink or swim for him—and happens he's swimming.

Morin's now-famous "erotic equation" states that "attraction plus obstacles equal excitement."6 High states of arousal, he explains, flow from the tension between persistent problems and triumphant solutions.

Eroticism challenges us to seek a different kind of resolution, to surrender to the unknown and ungraspable, and to breach the confines of the rational world.

invite you to think about ways you might introduce risk to safety, mystery to the familiar, and novelty to the enduring.

This is the challenge of sexual intimacy, of bringing home the erotic. It is the most fearsome of all intimacies because it is all-encompassing. It reaches the deepest places inside us, and involves disclosing aspects of ourselves that are invariably bound up with shame and guilt. It is scary, a whole new kind of nakedness, far more revealing than the sight of our nude bodies.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before…to test your limits…to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —Anaïs Nin

fidelity and loyalty, desire and longing, jealousy and possessiveness, truth-telling and forgiveness. I encourage you to question yourself, to speak the unspoken, and to be unafraid to challenge sexual and emotional correctness.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome," Jimmy

On a journey into the unknown, perfect progress is perfectly impossible.

They could neither go back nor remain in place. Like their wagons, they had no brakes, no way of stopping the high-stakes journey on which they had wagered their lives and fortunes.

On a journey into the unknown, perfect progress is perfectly impossible. Edwin

The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.

Welcome! I said—the most dangerous word in the world.

It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.

She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look dangerous, and so it had been to her. A way had to be found around her love sometimes, without challenging that, and at the same time cherishing it in its unassailable strength. Each of us children did, sooner or later, in part at least, solve this in different, respectful, complicated ways.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.