Quotes About Challenge

Un enfant, c'est un insurgé.

Oh, it was easy to be a soldier, it was much less easy to become a man again.

En mi juventud se me ha dicho tanto que estaba equivocada, tener razón me ha costado tanto, que rechazo equivocarme

Não se parcela a liberdade: a mulher livre sê-lo-á amiúde contra o homem. Mesmo a Bela Adormecida no bosque pode despertar com desprazer, pode não reconhecer em quem a acorda um Príncipe Encantado, pode não sorrir.

It is because there are real dangers, real failures and real earthly damnation that words like victory, wisdom, or joy have meaning. Nothing is decided in advance, and it is because man has something to lose and because he can lose that he can also win.

Je ne peux pas m'approprier le champ de neige sur lequel je glisse: il demeure étranger, interdit; mais je me complais dans cet effort meme vers un possession impossible: je l'éprouve comme un triomphe, non comme une défait

To find extraordinary difficulty in doing an ordinary action is a favor which calls for gratitude.

Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.

The great enigma of human life is not suffering but affliction.

HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling.

that we need to be in a real war again, in order to learn Discipline! We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups?

She watched the hulk of marriage drifting down on her frail speed-boat of aspiration, and steered in desperate circles.

Thus she triumphed through the class, which was a typical Blodgett contest between a dreary teacher and unwilling children of twenty, won by the teacher because his opponents had to answer his questions, while their treacherous queries he could counter by demanding, Have you looked that up in the library? Well then, suppose you do!

Is it just possible,' he sighed, 'that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?

I decided to leave here. Stern resolution. Grasp the world. Then I found that the Village Virus had me, absolute.

Go. Run with it. Make trouble.

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Huge blocks of ice, weighing many tons, were lifted into the air and tossed aside as other masses rose beneath them. We were helpless intruders in a strange world, our lives dependent upon the play of grim elementary forces that made a mock of our puny efforts.

Deep seemed the valleys when we lay between the reeling seas.

In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention?

And therefor, sir,' seyde the Bysshop, 'leve thys opynyon, other ellis I shall curse you with booke, belle and candyll.' 'Do thou thy warste,' seyde Mordred, 'and I defyghe the!

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Lucrurile grele sporesc teama de a le spune.