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Quotes About Challenge

What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.
~ Lillian Vernon
Life is a game; so we should know very well how to play it.
~ Lilly Ghalichi
The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.
~ Norio Ohga
That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.
~ Robert E. Sherwood
Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.
~ Sebastian Pinera
Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.
~ Will Smith
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
~ Cesare Pavese
Raging against the dying of the light - used in The Book of Peach
~ Dylan Thomas
Living is hell of a death
~ Dynamo
The Vajrayana is the path of the rug being pulled out from under your feet, so you need someone who knows how to do that.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Johnny. Johnny wanted to run a marathon. He wanted to go mile upon mile, proving his lungs would not give out. Proving he was the man Granddad wanted him to be, proving his strength, though he was so small. His lungs filled with smoke. He has nothing to prove now. There is nothing to run for.
~ E Lockhart
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
~ E. B. White
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
~ E. B. White
Now, my dear Cap, if you don't look sharp your hour is come! Nothing on earth will save you, Cap, but your own wits! For if ever I saw mischief in any one's face, it is in that fellow's that is eating you up with his great eyes at the same time that he is laughing at you with his big mouth! Now Cap, my little man, be a woman!
~ E. D. E. N. Southworth
Grimes could not positively assume that the dueling colonel, unable to back down in issuing his challenge, had planned for his seconds to settle the matter, yet the whipsaw trick which the gun slicks had attempted did indicate that the turnkey's account of Grimes' dealing with the marshal had left its marks on the town.
~ E. Hoffmann Price
Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.
~ E. Lockhart
I'd a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I've been in for the past two years.
~ E. Lockhart
I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
~ E. Lockhart
But also, he doesn't like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think—even when we don't feel like thinking.
~ E. Lockhart
Will you pretty please with brown sugar and cinnamon make a fucking Scrabble word?
~ E. Lockhart
Always do what you're afraid to do
~ E. Lockhart
Suffer. You could say it means to endure, but that's not exactly right
~ E. Lockhart
I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.
~ E. Lockhart
Always do what you're afraid to do -Cadence (Cady)
~ E. Lockhart