Quotes About Challenge

Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

The course of true anything does not run smooth.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

common sense, though she is by nature the gentlest creature living, when she feels the knife at her throat, is apt to develop unexpected powers of resistance, and to send doctrinaires flying, even when they have bound her down and think they have her at their mercy.

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.  

In human affairs there is no snug harbor, no rest short of the grave. We are forever setting forth afresh across new and stormy seas, or into outer space.

In two words: im-possible.

You know, I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question for once instead of tap dancing around it. And unfortunately I asked the question, but I still got a tap dance. Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.

You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.

What we need is not so much radical writers as we need radical readers!

The inevitable is that unprepared for.