Quotes about Challenge

Ever since his first attack

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Writing for the gallery is something that a writer must resist no matter who he is. You know the writers that are writing for their audience because they write the same book over and over again with the sort of cute things their readership likes. Serious writers write things that compel them, new challenges, new situations, and a new landscape that they have not been in before.

We adhere to the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," while not really questioning whether "it" is "broke.

Children need to do more than learn new skills. The theory of capabilities suggests they need to be challenged. They need to solve hard problems. They need to develop values. When you find yourself providing more and more experiences that are not giving children an opportunity to be deeply engaged, you are not equipping them with the processes they need to succeed in the future.