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Quotes About Challenge

Fait ce qui te fait peur
~ E. Lockhart
Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
~ E. M. Forester
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
~ E. M. Forster
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
~ E. M. Forster
La vida es muy fácil contarla, pero enfurecedora practicarla, y damos la bienvenida a los "nervios" o a algún esquema que se adapte a nuestro personal deseo.
~ E. M. Forster
The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal.
~ E. M. Forster
In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.
~ E. O. Wilson
Few will doubt that humankind has created a planet-sized problem for itself. No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles.
~ E. O. Wilson
The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.
~ E. Stanley Jones
You bet it is!" Norelle exclaimed. "Now follow me and we'll be there before you can say my full name backward five times!" "But we don't know your full name," said Annie. Norelle chortled and grinned at Annie. "Exactly!" Annie
~ E.D. Baker
Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
Be silent!" shrieked the beldame. "I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for the horrible, I can beat you hollow at that!
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
I have tried to tell the Story of Art as the story of a continuous weaving and challenging of traditions in which each work refers to the past and points to the future. For there is no aspect of this story more wonderful than this-- that a living chain of tradition still links the art of our own days with that of the Pyramid age.
~ E.H. Gombrich
Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.
~ E.M. Forster
Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
~ E.M. Forster
Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.
~ E.M. Forster
For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities.
~ E.M. Forster
Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.
~ E.M. Forster
Travel was a species of warfare.
~ E.M. Forster
for they regarded travel as a species of warfare, only to be undertaken by those who have been fully armed at the Haymarket Stores.
~ E.M. Forster
Life´s a damn poor show.
~ E.M. Forster
Oh, horrible—worst of all—worse than death, when you have made a little clearing in the wilderness, planted your little garden, let in your sunlight, and then the weeds creep in again!
~ E.M. Forster