Quotes about Challenge
'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.
— Ernest Hemingway
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
— CS Lewis
Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.
— Debra Granik
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
— Rose Kennedy
The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.
— Bernice King
But woe is thee, thou torrent of human custom! Who shall stand against thee?
— St. Augustine
What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?
— St. Jerome
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
— Virginia Woolf
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
— George Eliot
Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
— John Milton
It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.
— CS Lewis
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
— GK Chesterton