Quotes About Challenge

But two things might restrain a man in the Great Debauch: malaria and guard duty.

much flak if I made you a general at your age.

The second round of toast popped up behind David. He said, "I don't know what destiny feels like, but if this is it, I don't like it. I want to un-destiny this place from my life.

Life is short," I told her. "The challenge is to make it sweet.

It's a mistake to possess comfortable things," he said now. "Soft couches, big beds, large bath tubs, the like. Because if nothing is comfortable you don't settle in; you keep moving. And if you keep moving, you have a better chance of staying ahead of the people who are trying to catch up with you.

It is a great mistake to reduce your enemy to a demon," Starik said. "It leaves you at a distinct disadvantage when you are attempting to outwit him.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Truly, when the gods set their faces against you, you are fucked.

O to break loose, like the chinooksalmon jumping and falling back,nosing up to the impossiblestone and bone-crushing waterfall.

Oh to break loose like the chinook salmon jumping and falling back, nosing up to the impossible stone and bone-crushing waterfall.... Time to grub up and junk the year's output, a dead wood of dry verse: dim confession, coy revelation, liftings, listless self-imitation, whole days when I could hardly speak, came pluming home unshaven, weak and willing to read anyone things done before and better done....

only by suffering the rat-race in the arena can the heart learn to beat.

The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

a feat which is not unlike tryin' to hold a large beach ball under water while doin' needlepoint

I remember sitting at the witness table listening to this litany of woe and thinking, What the hell am I doing here? I have walked right into the middle of a category-five shitstorm.

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last.

It's like sneaking into heaven through the back door." On entering Norway after flying across the Arctic Ocean in an aging Russian Biplane

twenty yards to go—he could see a laundry truck rumbling by on the street—and

If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise," he predicted. "If you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.

clambered to the top of a pile of ruins, feeling his way over broken bricks and burnt timbers and shattered glass. His

While the modern medical name for the feeling produced by a new challenge or large goal is stress, for countless generations it went by the old, familiar name of fear.

When life gets scary and difficult, we tend to look for solutions in places where it is easy or at least familiar to do so, and not in the dark, uncomfortable places where real solutions might lie.

Do I bludgeon my brains against this wall or do I find some way to get through my days with value?