Quotes About Challenge

I've not yet begun to fight!

I have not yet begun to fight!

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.

When rival worldviews are in play, it is not adaptation that is called for but confrontation: confrontation

If prayer is not for gratifying natural desires but for Christ-exalting fruit-bearing, the major challenge in praying is to become the kind of person who is not dominated by natural desires, but by spiritual fruit-bearing desires

What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.

We must train our people that it is not irreverent to see difficulties in the biblical text and to think hard about how they can be resolved.

If you are sufficient for your task it's too small.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

Not to pun at all would be more challenging than most people might imagine.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.

Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

Forget trying to find an old bone or two, seek the damned Holy Grail! You may fail, probably will based on historical record, but you'll fail grandly!

I think we've got to go after them root and branch...if we're ever gonna do it, this is the time to do it.

If Fastnet 79 teaches us anything universal, it is that the best storm tactic often is unrelenting human resourcefulness, courage, and spirit.

the sea showed that it can be a deadly enemy and that those who go to sea for pleasure must do so in the full knowledge that they may encounter dangers of the highest order.

If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.

Even thinking was hard.