Quotes About Challenge

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

She'd done harder things in her life, she could do this. She had to.

He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.

The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment." "What is it?" "Impossibility.

Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.

My lord," said D'Artagnan, "Monsieur de Vallon [Porthos] is like me, he prefers service extraordinary—that is to say, enterprises that are considered mad and impossible.

No matter how much I stir, my soup still sticks to the pot.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.

Addiction is finding a quick and dirty solution to the symptom of the problem, which prevents or distracts one from the harder and longer-term task of solving the real problem.