Quotes about Challenge

Those who fled will fight another time.

What appears like a problem is merely a place where a miracle awaits.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder;

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.