Quotes About Challenge

Nobody said not to go.

What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing ... a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.

Failure is ever impending.

Probably if we had historic records of the ante-historic ages—if some superhuman power had set down the thoughts and actions of men ages before they could set them down for themselves—we should know that this first step in civilization was the hardest step. But when we come to history as it is, we are more struck with the difficulty of the next step.

Nothing is difficult in this world unless we don't make it difficult.

In every development, just or false, real or imaginary, collective or individual, it is always the first step, the first act that is the most difficult. That step once taken, the rest follows naturally as a necessary consequence.

I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

I belong to the opposition party, which is called life.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within.

Yet at all costs I had to keep my hands and body and mind moving. Doing that, I hoped, albeit listlessly, would somehow, someday, lead to a breakthrough. There was no guarantee, but I would try to endure, no matter what, until it came.

There's nothing as senseless as being harried at a simple do-what's-needed part-time job.

I've always been like that—if I'm not pushed to the brink, I won't move.

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within, I thought.

There is no physical method of combating a ghost which can result in his discomfiture, so I resolved to try the intellectual.

When a fellah's licked, suh,... he just natcherly kain't help feelin' sore, suh; but if he's merely ovdhpowdhed, suh -- why that's very different.

By some the harbor ne'er is won, Despite the journey well begun; The storm besets, and ruin lies Where yesterday were fairest skies.

What would I do where platforms, microphones and screens denied me? That's easy. I'd go to the races.