Quotes About Challenge

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

Life is hard, but it's even harder when you don't wanna face it.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

Reth looked exasperated. "When is something ever not wrong in your life?" I frowned. "That's my line.

No, you just keep crashing my life. Look—" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Really anything can happen at any time and we are very addicted to comfort. Life is just not always comfortable.

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.