Quotes About Challenge

A man of fifty-six, who has been all his life accustomed to his own room and a clean bed, does not find it very easy to sleep on the floor on a pile of dirty straw. He simply cannot master the technique of the thing.

I cannot keep my mouth shut, even when it is dangerous to have it open. If, for example, I hear somebody, even an important and easily irascible Somebody, say that Montaigne was born around the year 1600, I simply have to open my mouth and declare: "You are mistaken, sir, Montaigne was born in the year 1533.

The Partisan case was advanced as well by Trilling's insistence that what commends modernist writing to progressive readers is, precisely, the challenge it often makes to progressive belief: "The contemporary authors we most wish to read and most wish to admire for their literary qualities demand of us a great agility and ingenuity in coping with their antagonism to our social and political ideals.

We are the answers with problems to solve

It's not the flying that's the hard part; it's the landing.

It's true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But no one says that strength doesn't come at a price.

They have to get through each day, which makes truth a fickle companion.

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Harris Reed: Ah, you caught me. Bobby: And now's the part when I throw you back.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.