Quotes About Challenge

Man is something that should be overcome.

I do not refute ideals, I just out on gloves when I deal with them...

I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me may grasp me! Your crutch, however, I am not.--

Glaubt es mir - das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heisst: gefährlich leben.

the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge!…(283).

You say to me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But wherefore would you have in the morning your pride and in the evening your resignation?

It is important to accept that the world is not in any way striving toward a stable condition, equilibrium or eternal sunshine.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

The challenge of the 21st century will be to change the value system of the network society, so as to make it compatible with the demands of human dignity and ecological sustainability.

chess fir-ma-ment. Morphy, Angler, Judy Kaplan....

The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.

They want a mission, a challenge! When we follow the type of advertising appeal used by Madison Avenue to sell toothpaste, when we use commercial techniques in our vocation literature, do not the hearts of the young spurn our distance from the Cross? Do not we recruit fruits of propaganda rather than fruits worthy of penance?

The troops were cracking because they could not absorb what was happening to them, because they knew themselves to be utterly powerless (bravery had little survival value when one was on the receiving end of a bombardment), and because they had no confidence that the generals who had put them in danger knew what they were doing. Men whose courage was beyond challenge could and did break down if subjected to enough strain of this kind.

J'apprenais qu'il peut être plus difficile de faire changer d'idée un enfant aimant qu'un homme armé de toute sa force.

Y sin embargo, se mueve! (Eppur si muove)

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

The longer I'm in this sport, the more I realize that it's not about the wins and losses that makes you a good fighter. It's about putting the time in and fighting the best guys possible and going after them. The outcome will take care of itself.

Tottenham is not a club that always wins, but we are trying to create something. It's not easy to fight against European monsters, but it is a motivation.

I played 'Mortal Kombat' competitively in arcades. Played for money at 10, hustling the 20-year-olds. Five bucks on whoever wins. Which, at 10 years old, is real money.

The team that wants it the hardest wins, but there have been times when I came out as the villain.

It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.