Quotes About Challenge

A man's troubles are always half disposed of when he finds endurance the only alternative.

Such are the limitations of the common mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men can discern through the glitter and dazzle of present prosperity the dark outlines of approaching disasters, even though they may have come up to our very gates, and are already within striking distance. The yawning seam and corroded bolt conceal their defects from the mariner until the storm calls all hands to the pumps.

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.

The soldiers were overwhelmed and blinded by the forces of nature, by the soaking vegetation, the mountains that vanished in the clouds, the rivers swirling with turbid, dangerously rapid water, by the mud, the heat, by everything. It was a formless, green-gray world, devoid of outline, inimical, a world in which every movement, even eating was an effort.

You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.

It is so pleasant to feel that we have succeeded in doing what all the People who Know told us was impossible.

Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe. (One can as well fall into height as into depth)

Das gibt dem Menschen seine ganze Jugend, daß er Fesseln zerreißt.

Wo aber die Gefahr ist, wächst, Das Rettende auch. But where danger is, salvation also blooms.

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

And life confided the secret to me: behold, it said, l am that which must always overcome itself.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? 'Thou shalt' is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, 'I will.

Saying yes to life, even in its strangest and hardest problems.