Quotes About Challenges

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

The world is full of horrors, Tommen. You can fight them, or laugh at them, or look without seeing...

None of us is ever ready

I was a lot better at starting stories than I was at finishing them.

My enemies are legion.

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

Look at these oafs, Ned. My wife insisted I take these two to squire for me, and they're worse than useless. Can't even put a man's armor on him properly. Squires, they say. I say they're swineherds dressed up in silk." Ned only needed a glance to understand the difficulty. "The boys are not at fault," he told the king. "You're too fat for your armor, Robert.

As hard as birth can be, Brienne, what comes after is even harder. At times I feel as though I am being torn apart. Would that there were five of me, one for each child, so I might keep them all safe." - Lady Catelyn

And here's another order. From this day forth, you will not call yourself a craven. You've faced more things this past year than most men face in a lifetime.

He had long ago given up trying even to understand the unsolvable mathematics of human relationships, let alone to participate.

Unless you relish the notion of having a one-armed dwarf for a son …

some capers you have to pull, whether you want to or not.

Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.

The world's nothing but a mean bully, that's a fact. Even when you've big misfortunes threatening to drop on your head, small ones still take every chance to prick your toes.

Or do you mean to rule over a realm of seals and otters?" She gave a rueful laugh. "Otters might be easier to rule than men, I grant you. And seals are smarter.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Without a Negro problem, Americans could concentrate their attention on something constructive. Through his efforts and the activities of Black-No-More, Incorporated, it would be possible to do what agitation, education and legislation had failed to do.

This latest menace of Black-No-More is the most formidable the white people of America have had to face since the founding of the Republic.

Everywhere liberty is surrounded by secret or open enemies

The Second World War broke out within a few months of the publication of Rehabilitations and The Personal Heresy. Jack was then a man of forty. He had published seven books, of which only two were moderately successful. No one could have guessed that within a few years his would become a household name.