Quotes About Challenge

You can't play in shit and not get some on you.

I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.

Uma pedrinha pode fazer sair uma roda do seu caminho, disse-me ele, mas avisou-me que a experiência raramente era agradável para a pedrinha.

Não reconheci a minha voz quando perguntei ao mundo: 'Como pode a coisa mais difícil que já fiz na vida ser também a mais cobarde?

But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

It seems a fine tale, to hear you tell it that way, with none of the dirt and pain and misfortune." "It is a fine tale, even with the dirt and pain and misfortune.

All of us stand on the edge of the future; why venture off the precipice?

I'd have wished myself elsewhere, but there is something in a boy that takes the mundanely difficult and unpleasant and turns it into a personal challenge and an adventure.

You are not a prince, you are an assassin. You are not the player, you are the game-piece. And when you make your own moves, you set every other strategy awry and endanger every piece on the board!

She asked me if the schoolteacher and the horsemaster were still at odds, and by this I discerned that Burrich and Galen's challenge at the Witness Stones had become something of a local legend already. I assured her that peace had been restored. We spent

Your mind will remember how to do something and you will think you can still do it. Your body will try. And fail.

The profit from danger only pays you interest in trouble

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Change is just a bend in the road, not the end of the road.

Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.

Life would be pretty monotonous if the sky was always blue.

I'd been a long way from the campus but sometimes I felt the vibrations of my peer group. I understood some of the reasons for their revolt. Wasn't my voyage prompted by the same longings for freedom, the same desire to get out of the rut an routine, to prove something to myself - to prove perhaps that a kid doesn't have to be boxed in until he is a mental and spiritual dummy in a business suit?

Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

His scientific community will reject him for believing in God. Unless, of course, someone challenges the biggest enthymeme of them all that they are not separate realms to begin with just separate methods in search of the same unified mystery.

on Gerda Lerner] As for stepping outside of patriarchal thought: "Being skeptical toward every known system of thought: being critical of all assumptions, ordering values and definitions . . . , developing intellectual courage, . . . the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality of all - that of intellectual arrogance, the supreme hubris which asserts to itself the right to reorder the world.

The Corridor is a series of environments, challenges, and puzzles that have to be overcome. I'm the Conduit, you're the Runner. I'm here to tell you the rules. You must decide how to use them.

we all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it . . . it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.