Quotes About Challenge

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.

Each man is a little war.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Hard tasks need hard ways.

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power, the Duke said. Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.

I told him that to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

You, Priest in your mufti, you are a chaplain to the self-satisfied. I come not to challenge Muad'Dib but to challenge you! Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation? Answer me, Priest!

Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!

To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. --from Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

What's a gom jabbar?

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.   —

he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." —

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.

I hold at your neck the gom jabbar," she said. "The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison.

Paul crawled through the sphincter

Cualquier camino que se sigue con exactitud hasta el fin, conduce con la misma exactitud a ninguna parte. Escalad la montaña solo un poco para comprobar que es una montaña. Desde la cima, no podréis ver la montaña».

They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.