Quotes About Challenge

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

NO ROADS, NOT a single one, lead to the place where we had gotten ourselves.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Le seul obstacle entre nous, disait-elle, c'est la boisson. - Je boirai l'obstacle, répondais-je

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.

That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

cuanto mayor es la dificultad, mayor es la satisfacción al superarla

I'm doing a thousand new things in spite of myself," he said. "It's not easy, you know, to jump over your shadow.

Estoy haciendo mil cosas nuevas a pesar de mi mismo. No es fácil, ya sabes, saltar sobre `tu propia sombra.

Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

Aunque quizá, por otra parte, la vida sea precisamente andar a tientas. En la mía, las certidumbres –y no he tenido más que dos o tres– me han llevado en general a lo peor.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.