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Quotes About Challenges

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
~ Susan Sontag
It is normal for a fifth-grade aged student to be writing at a third-grade level, reading at a fifth-grade level, and doing math at a seventh-grade level. A child who succeeds at two subjects and cries over the third may still be showing immaturity—and the answer may be to drop back to a lower level in only the third subject.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
Sure no woman's condition ever equalled mine: foppery, folly, avarice and hypocrisy are by turns my constant companions, and I must vary shapes as often as a player
~ Susanna Centlivre
As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.
~ Susanna Kaysen
The world needs us to be fierce enough to see challenges as gifts, to express our unique selves, and to expand the limits of what is possible. The only thing getting in the way is that we get stuck trying to find our way out of pain and discomfort. There is no way to avoid uncertainty. There is no guarantee of safety.
~ Susie Caldwell Rinehart
Sometimes you feel like crying before you feel like trying.
~ Suzanne Bloom
Relentless repetition was usually needed when dealing with alcohol and idiots.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Max was shaking his head. "Careers are going to be made, based on what happens over the next few days," he pointed out. Jules just looked at him for several long seconds. "That might be truly the most offensive thing you've ever said to me.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.
~ Suzanne Collins
No one knows what to do with you, girlie.
~ Suzanne Collins
The strain of being a full-fledged adult every day had grown tiresome.
~ Suzanne Collins
Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
~ Suzanne Collins
It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
~ Suzanne Collins
Each time I wake,I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.
~ Suzanne Collins
Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed," he says. "Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.
~ Suzanne Collins
Something keeps me moving forward, though. A lifetime of watching the Hunger Games lets me know that certain areas of the arena are rigged for certain attacks. And that if I can just get away from this section, I might be able to move out of reach of the launchers. I might also then fall straight into a pit of vipers, but I can't worry about that now.
~ Suzanne Collins
Porque, a veces, a las personas les ocurren cosas que no están preparadas para afrontar.
~ Suzanne Collins
You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.
~ Suzanne Collins
no matter his advantages, Hilarius always seemed to feel oppressed.
~ Suzanne Collins
We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us
~ Suzanne Collins
How is he?" "He's a royal pain, frankly. He eats three times as much as the rest of us, yet he can't seem to get the knack of hunting. If we don't feed him he whines. So, of course, we do feed him and then he grows another six inches and whines louder.
~ Suzanne Collins
Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'll tell them how I survive it.
~ Suzanne Collins