Quotes About Challenge

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30 000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

As sure as the sun will shineI'm going to get it, what's mineAnd then the harder they comeThe harder they fall,One and all.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

I challenge you to a rap battle, Kanye West. I play the clarinet.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you, But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.—Nathalia Crane

My clawed fingers lost all feeling after the first quarter-mile as I clung to anything within reach, and my right foot was numb from stomping an imaginary brake pedal.

toward the fire. Above the

On a shrunken planet where nearly every mountain bears bootprints and every mile of river has been run, being 'first' tends to require creative task definition" (111).

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

This isn't a nice story, and this isn't an easy story. But it is a story about fairies, so feel free to think of it as a fairy story. It's not like you'd believe it anyway.

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

It's the books I love best that are the hardest to write about. I don't want to take one angle on them, I want to dive into them and quote huge chunks and tell you everything about them, and it just isn't possible.

People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up.

I couldn't be anything. I could barely manage to hold out my shape in the world.

Vivendo minha sorte, com lutas e guerras!

Uno vuol passare un fiume a nuoto, e lo passa; ma tocca l'altra sponda in un punto assai più in basso, ben diverso da quello che in un primo tempo aveva pensato. Vivere non è forse molto pericoloso?

A tal que, enfim, veio o dia de se sair, guerreiramente, por vales e montes, a gente toda.

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats. — João Guimarães Rosa, Tutaméia (Terceiras Estórias) Nova Fronteira; 8 edition (2009). Originally published January 1st 1976.