Quotes About Challenge

no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and discipline.

Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: "Take a job that will give you security, not adventure." But I say to the young: "Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

Você deve fazer as coisas que acha que não consegue fazer.

This, I think, is one of the most effective and rewarding forms of education. The interest is there, lurking somewhere in another person. You have only to seek for it. It will make every encounter a challenge and it will keep alive one of the most valuable qualities a person has—curiosity.

The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

the toe of an enormous and heroic

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Do one thing every day that scares you."-Eleanor Roosevelt 6/3/17

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

We climbed slowly toward the greatest of our terrors of that time, we went to expose ourselves to fear and interrogate it.

She was like that, she threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way.

We grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.

Lei era così, rompeva equilibri solo per vedere in quali altri modi poteva ricomporli.

When I opened my eyes again, five hours later, at seven o'clock on Saturday August 4th, I had trouble getting my bearings. The hardest day of the ordeal of my abandonment was about to begin, but I didn't know it yet.

Yes, it's Lila who makes writing difficult. My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck.

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall.

Writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.