Quotes About Challenge

You can't squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.

Anything you fight against gets stronger.

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

More clench than butt cheeks.

A relationship can push us into having to confront certain areas of life, even if natally we are neither predisposed nor well equipped to cope in that area.

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you? The world's a lot bigger than I am.

Question everything. Attempt the impossible. Be brave.

The worst part was the fear - looking down at the rushing water that seemed miles away. But once you were on that branch, there was no going back.

He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking...

As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do so. Now, amid the grizzled, battle-wise warriors, his strength seemed feeble, his knowledge clouded.

At the end of their grim race, death might be the only prize.

I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might come along with me for the sport of it. He sent back a message. All it said was 'Humph!

You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

Thomas, she suggested, you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

And he could see as well that they had not yet approached the worst of it.

We're required to learn to swim but we're not allowed in the river," she found herself telling him.

I'm trying to ruin it! Will had bellowed back. So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

One step at a time," Vorkosigan returned grimly, "I can walk around the world. Watch me.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Damn it, he mumbled apologetically, things like this never happened to Vorthalia the Bold. She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. How do you know? The histories of those times were all written by minstrels and poets. You try and think of a word that rhymes with 'bleeding ulcer

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.