Quotes About Challenge

Und ich lernte meine Herren. Ach, man lernt, wenn man muß; man lernt, wenn man einen Ausweg will; man lernt rücksichtslos.

ALAS," said the mouse, "the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up. Translated

Ce n'est pas à l'ampleur du travail que celle du cas se mesure, si vous avez de telles idées vous êtes encore bien loin de comprendre l'administration.

Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it?

I'm in a tight spot, but I'll also work my way out again.

The dogs are still playing in the yard, but the quarry will not escape them, never mind how fast it is running through the forest already.

Der wahre Weg geht über ein Seil, das nicht in der Höhe gespannt ist, sondern knapp über dem Boden. Es scheint mehr bestimmt stolpern zu machen, als begangen zu werden.

Itseään on koeteltava ihmiskuntaa vastaan. Se opettaa epäilijää epäilemään ja uskovaa uskomaan.

If my heart can't take it, it will at least offer a worthy occasion for it to fail entirely.

Acho que devemos ler apenas os tipos de livros que nos ferem ou esfaqueiam. Se o livro que estamos lendo não nos acorda com um golpe na cabeça, para que estamos lendo?

DoÄŸru yol yüksekte deÄŸil, yerin hemen üzerinde gerili bir ip boyunca ilerler. Üzerinde yürümek deÄŸil de, insan? çelmelemek içindir sanki.

No hay defensa posible contra esta judicatura, ha que confesar. Haga la confesión en la próxima oportunidad que se le presente. Solo así tendrá la posibilidad de escapar

well were those that were destined to do so from the very beginning, without any help at all, while all the others were lost in spite of following them so closely, in spite of all the effort, all the small apparent victories that gave such pleasure.

Sometimes it's as though I were a gladiator in training. He doesn't know what they have in store for him, but to judge by the training he is being put through, it may be a great battle with all of Rome looking on.

sometimes a thousand shoulders quake under a burden meant just for one.

From the true opponent, a limitless courage flows into you.

The bony structure of his own forehead blocks his way; he batters himself bloody against his own forehead.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, What are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to.

The true path is along a rope, not a rope suspended way up in the air, but rather only just over the ground. It seems more like a tripwire than a tightrope.

their position is no easy one, nor should one do them the injustice of regarding it as such.

But is all your earlier life really so remote from you (except, of course, for the landlady, and there's no getting rid of her) that you no longer know how one must fight to make any progress, particularly when you start from so far below? How any method offering any kind of hope must be used?

Toute littérature est assaut contre la frontière.

My father went to catch wild frogs. I was skinny and weak, and my father heard their juice would give me size and strength. It tasted very, very bad... but I had to drink it because I wanted to be a footballer, and everyone said I needed to be bigger and stronger.

Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.