Quotes About Challenge

A Man having found a Lion in his path undertook to subdue him by the power of the human eye; and near by was a Rattlesnake engaged in fascinating a small bird. How are you getting on, brother? the Man called out to the other reptile, without removing his eyes from those of the Lion.

Poverty and zeal are an upper and a nether millstone.  It is dangerous to make a third in that kind of sandwich.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

We're plotting reformation of life as we know it," I replied, somewhat flippantly. "Oh, is that all?" she teased. "Why not start with breakfast?

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.

Well, he's scraping up what there is. Reckon we'll need every ready hand when it comes to a battle. Yours too, maybe.' 'Oh, you'll have to hold me back!' Calder slapped the hilt of his sword. 'Can't wait to get started!' 'You ever even drawn the fucking thing?' sneered Tenways, stretching his neck out to spit again. 'Just the once. I had to trim your daughter's hairy cunt before I could get at it.

Joe Abercrombie

Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it!

She surely can cook a fight from the most peaceful ingredients. But nothing worth doing is easy. I love her in spite of it. I love her because of it. I love her." And his face broke out in that grin again. "Every day's a new adventure, that's for sure.

But love is not always a solution. In this case, it was very much a problem.

You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you? -Sand dan Glokta

I bet you can do better." Luthar was grinning across at Logen. "I got bitten by a mean sheep once, but it didn't leave much of a mark.

But easy is for the dead,

Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse' Joseph

One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find that we are . . . this.

Seems giving little men big men's shoes doesn't make 'em big. Just makes 'em trip over.

The birth of spring is perhaps not the best time to cross a mountain range,' observed Longfoot under his breath. Bayaz looked sharply sideways. 'Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it! Or do you suggest we wait for summer?

Nothing was easy with people, but she could always count on herself to make things more difficult than they had to be.

But chaos is the natural state of things, for men pull always in their own directions. It is those who want the world to march all the same way that give themselves the challenge.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

This wasn't fantasies, it was life. And life had a habit of kicking her in the cunt. But

But that was civilization, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.

But then getting warriors to fight has always been easy. It's stopping the bastards that's the tougher trick.

Jaud planted his fists on his hips. "You made it, then." "Some turds float," said Rulf. Ankran