Quotes About Challenge

Gary Paulsen

As was often the case with the ego's script, the plot added up to "damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Everyone struggles. Each life comes with a long catalog of pain.

It's so difficult to go to a strange town, even in America. I went to Dayton once, when I was in a basketball camp...

Yes, the revolution was coming for them, too. How many revolutions would they have to live through during the never-ending historicity of their goddamned lives?

Switchback turn, turn, and again, hard scrabble steep travel ahead.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have begun our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.1

THE ONLY MADNESS GREATER THAN CHALLENGING FATE IS ACCEPTING IT.

I used to face charging lions in the Serengeti with nothing more than a stone axe and a loincloth. People today disappoint me.

One of the goals of classical education is to discern the appropriate manner by which the mistreated and oppressed can challenge their oppressors without destroying their civilization.

Failure is not an option.

if you ask enough people, you'll find someone who will disagree with the majority and give those nervous about risk a way out.

High-risk leadership beckons many, but few accept the call.

President Kennedy made his speech at Rice University that confirmed his commitment. This time I was more attuned to his words. On a makeshift stage erected on the fifty-yard line at Rice Stadium, Kennedy repeated the question that many had raised: "Some have asked, why go to the Moon? One might as well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why sail the widest ocean?

S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

There have been many times when I have felt I have gone mad, for I have had many great adventures, and the greatest adventures are those that act most strongly upon our minds.

These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.

Here I pause. If you wish to walk no farther with me, reader, I do not blame you. It is no easy road.

Strength and a stout heart are hazardous qualities where they cannot prevail.

There comes a time when a sorcerer must triumph on his own or die.

monomachy? Impossible. I'm not of the contending class

Fortune has dealt us this adversity: Some malign aspect or disposition Of Saturn in some adverse position Has brought it on us; nothing's to be done: It stood thus in our stars when we were born; The long and short of it is this: Endure.

nadie debe echar sobre sus espaldas fardo que no pueda llevar.

Lo que comenzó mal, rara vez y con muchísima dificultad concluirá bien.