Quotes About Challenges

I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man. Only that can halt me on the path I have chosen before I have reached my appointed goal. Everything else is planned for.

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men.

Ho l'impressione che l'uomo non possa essere felice così facilmente! La felicità è come quei palazzi delle isole incantate alle cui porte stanno a difesa i draghi: bisogna combattere per conquistarli.

There are, indeed, some things which appear so impossible that the mind does not dwell on them for an instant.

nothing appears impossible to one condemned to die, and miracles appear quite reasonable when his escape from death is concerned.

Ne craignez pas les occasions et cherchez les aventures.

La vita è un rosario di piccole miserie che il filosofo sgrana sorridendo.

D'Artagnan took every smile for an insult, and every look as a provocation

La vie est un chapelet de petites misères que le philosophe égrène en riant.

Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile.

Servono le sventure per scavare certe miniere misteriose nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; serve la pressione per far esplodere la polvere.

L'amour, c'est une chose privée, qu'on vous dit! Pour après les fatigues des journées salariées, les soins aux chiards et tout le tintouin domestique.

This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

Te encanta, ¿no es cierto? Amenazas... Pandillas... Maleantes... La vida de la cloaca. —Es la gente, Jake. Es la vida. Es mi negocio»

I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.

This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

The things that go wrong are rarely the things you,ve thought to worry about.

I don't make all the decisions, you know," Isabelle managed to say. "I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

If you took all the trouble most girls got into as teenagers and boiled it down for twenty-four hours, you'd wind up with something the size of a Snickers candy bar. But if you melted down all the trouble Gillian Owens got herself into, not to mention all the grief she caused, you'd have yourself a sticky mess as tall as the statehouse of Boston.

In her opinion, everything goes wrong if you give it enough time.