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Quotes About Challenge

all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory.
~ Ry? Murakami
Development is a treacherous river, as everyone who plunges into its currents knows.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Ce n'est pas le chemin qui est difficile, c'est le difficile qui est le chemin.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the harbor--that is the metaphor for having faith. (Concluding Unscientific Postscript)
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Let the thunder of a hundred cannon remind you three times daily to resist the force of habit.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Oleminen ei ole mukavuuskysymys.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront…He therefore who has learned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To strive against the whole world is a comfort, to strive with oneself is dreadful.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I feel as a chessman must when the opponent says of it: that piece cannot be moved.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To be a man, to live here in this world, is to be put on trial
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although
~ S.D. Perry
At the moment, she felt like she couldn't possibly be surprised . . . and she knew from experience that feeling that way was usually when the universe decided to shake things up a little more, to try and find out what a person was created from, clay or sand, adapt or crumble. As
~ S.D. Perry
For all that Starfleet insisted on military protocol, their officers had a tiresome tendency to question everything.
~ S.D. Perry
Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although that basically meant to prepare for anything.
~ S.D. Perry
you should always kick a man when he's down. It's much easier then.
~ S.M. Stirling
Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward
~ S.M. Stirling
Who dares, wins," he muttered to himself. "Or gets royally banged about if things go south.
~ S.M. Stirling
Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today.
~ Sally Koslow
Oh sometimes it does, Carter
~ Sally Malcolm
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake
~ Salman Rushdie
Make no mistake- you can change things. Question everything, take nothing for granted; argue with all received ideas, don't respect what does not deserve respect; speak your mind, don't censor yourself; use your imagination and express what it tells you to express. These are the weapons of the mind.
~ Salman Rushdie