c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.
— Wolf Pascoe
Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.
— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping.
— Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
A gurgling chuckle came from behind him; Jonas had heard it often enough to know that it signified something as close to laughter as the creature ever got. “Yet you believe those things won’t come if you serve your Lord? You know what they say about the road to Hell, Judas.
— Kaine Andrews
It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.
— Wolf Pascoe, Breathing for Two
Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.
— Wolf Pascoe, Breathing for Two
War pacifies itself.
— Christopher  Dutton
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
— Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!
— Courtney Milan, The Duchess War
He sure put things into words good.
— S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.
— Stephen King, The Green Mile
If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly no need to inform him that I am not created for any sort of society. The trouble is I don't know how to behave in company. If I go anywhere among a great many people I always have a feeling as though I were being electrified by so many eyes looking at me. It positively makes me shrivel up, physically shrivel up, even in such places as the theatre, to say nothing of private houses. I did not know how to behave with dignity in these gambling saloons and assemblies; I either was still, inwardly upbraiding myself for my excessive mildness and politeness, or I suddenly got up and did something rude. And meanwhile all sorts of worthless fellows far inferior to me knew how to behave with wonderful aplomb-- and that's what really exasperated me above everything, so that I lost my self-possession more and more. I may say frankly, even at that time, if the truth is to be told, the society there, and even winning money at cards, had become revolting and a torture to me. Positively a torture. I did, of course, derive acute enjoyment from it, but this enjoyment was at the cost of torture.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent
Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.
— Sarah Mlynowski, Ten Things We Did
How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I was just chased through St. Willibald’s, and you know why? Because I was kind to a quig. I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and then it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.
— Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
I hope you nail the basta
— Nenia Campbell, Endgame
I am not going to give you disclaimers about what you can expect to find in my story. I went through menopause recently and find I don't much care about anyone's sensibilities anymore. I am called BadSquirrel for a reason. Considering how incredibly rude and grouchy I have become, I expect all of you to be extremely grateful to the QMBG (Queen Mother Bitch Goddess for those of you who haven't kept up) for all of the good warm fuzzy bits of my story. If you like it, it's because she went through it and took out all the really disturbing parts and made me behave.
— BadSquirrel, Warriors of the Heart
I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.
— Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
Religious people were big on saying "the tongue is a mighty weapon, so use it wisely," and then forsaking this claim when the music director slept with the minister's wife or when the youth minister did what he did.
— Tiffany King, Miss Me Not
Once you hold the hand of Death, the only thing in life that can scare you is a sense of humor.
— Lionel Suggs
Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they'd hardly do it here. They'd slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn't go off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Cetaganda
She had hit rock-bottom. She had given a blow job to a man who for all intents and purposes, was a bum. He had smelled so bad, she forced him to spray on some of the perfume she always carried in her purse. Her favorite perfume. After tonight, she was quitting. Yeah, she’d have to go back home with her two kids, grovel to her mama and work a dead-end job, but anything was better than getting down on your knees to give a guy as disgusting as Lenny a one-off.
— A.T. Hicks, Peaches and the Gambler
Don't we all hope to die with a smile on our faces?
— Jeff O'Brien
I'm not saying you're weak, but you brawl like a couple of girls having a pillow fight.
— Andrew Sturm, The Kirkwood Project
Story Content Warning: There will be angst, sex, a little rough language and rampant lesbianism. If this is not your cup of tea, don't drink it. If you are not old enough to read this, you will be soon. It might be in your best interest to wait until you are older. If you live in a place where this is not legal... why are you still living there? Maybe it's time for you to move on.
— BadSquirrel
I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.
— John Boyne, The Absolutist
A united front announcing a split.
— Sarah Dessen, That Summer
The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet
If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if the temperate order of the seasons had been interrupted, the superstitious Pagans were convinced that the crimes and the impiety of the Christians, who were spared by the excessive lenity of the government, had at length provoked the divine justice.
— Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
— Jerry Lee Lewis
The other shoppers were too well behaved to stare at the green-headed stoner and the tear-streaked lady zigzagging up the aisles with a chubby bearded guy scurrying behind them picking up the things they dropped.
— Amy Goldman Koss, Side Effects
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.
— Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
Seven pillars of wisdom propping the roof of the temple. Always remember what there's beyond the pillars.
— Lara Biyuts
When the world around is ready to back one unconditionally, one can become as unreasonable, unfair, and coldly sadistic as one likes.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life, for his love is unconditional.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Families help us learn what unconditional love is
— Brent M. Jones
Speaker calls the Christian counselor to look at each person as soul embodied with unique challenges that move us. This is not, he says, the first step before we get on to important business but vital in and of itself.
— Edward T. Welch
What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?
— Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
— T.S. Eliot
There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger.
— Eric R. Bates
Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.
— Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
— Molière
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
— Wendell Berry
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
— Bernie S. Siegel
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.
— Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy
There is always a gift in any challenge.
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.
— Thomas S. Monson, Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
— Jack Buck
Sometimes we bring to a struggle or cause the gifts we see most clearly, a courage, a strength, or a charm others have told us we have. But often we find more is asked of us than that, more than we intended or thought we possessed. We are asked to offer that which we thought dearest, to forgive what seemed unpardonable, to face what we feared the most and endure it. Sometimes we have to travel to the last step a path that was not of our own choosing. But I promise you this ... it will lead to a greater joy in the end. The difficulty is that the end is beyond our sight, it is a matter of faith, not of knowledge.
— Anne Perry, A Christmas Visitor
Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost.
— Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
We can smile when facing a challenge, if we believe in ourselves that we won’t back down.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Mark it. The success of people may excite you. But the challenges they went through to achieve it will annoy you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Let's Go to the Next Level
When we first wake up every morning, there’s a calm in our minds. The challenge is to keep it there all day.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
There are two types of hurdles. Difficulty and Challenge. What we face, depends on whether or not we love what we do
— Vignesh S
No matter what the day brings and no matter how hard life hits you, if you can breathe, smile and keep moving on! Once you have life, know that God is alive!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It’s through challenges that winners’ thoughts are invoked. Through challenges, winners are inspired to think. Through challenges winners turn their dreams into reality. Through challenges, winners begin to lead. Through challenges, winners set forth towards victory, for nothing is sweeter than winning, especially when the odds are stacked against them.
— Kevin Abdulrahman, The Book on What Ever You're Into: These Are the 52 Timeless Winning Truths You Need to Know to Have a Chance at Winning
We have become used to obstructionist ideas. In the name of modernisation we are unconsciously hindering the natural flow of life. The fact that we are irritated, depressed, and distressed speaks volumes of our illogical ambitions to acquire control of this planet. Mostly, philosophically challenged and scant respect for natural way of life is making us irrelevant.
— Amitav Chowdhury
In the face of great challenges, you can choose to live reactively as a victim, or choose to proactively take control, with awareness and accountability.
— Isaac Lidsky, Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly
The truth is, that MOST of the time MOST of us take the road MOST traveled, the path of least resistance and MOST comfortable.
— Jayce O'Neal
If we do not accept our challenges and remain in our comfort zone, then we undergo degradation
— Sunday Adelaja
There are so many challenges, but the first, closest and biggest challenge is our mindset!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When someone has had an exceptionally challenging or difficult earthly life, those challenges are often by design. Our Master will test those who are ready to expand. The struggles are designed to increase one’s strength and to be a springboard into higher realms.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just gt back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you, and you will do it!
— Jorge Cruise
Most of our problems today are not that we don’t know, but that we don’t know how to put things together with the right zeal and grit to get something noble and leave noble footprints!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Stop the continual thinking of anticipated challenges and start thinking of solutions. Solutions take you to the next level whilst thinking of challenges with no solutions makes you stay at the same level or at worse takes you a step backwards.
— Oscar Bimpong
One of the very striking life lessons from Game of Thrones.When Arya was blind; hopeless and helpless. The Waif lured her into multiple stick fights and the Waif would promptly beat Arya in every sparring match. But through those stick fight, Arya learned to cope with her blindness and how to fight “in the dark.”After Arya had regained her sight and Jaqen had granted the Waif’s wish to kill Arya. Arya confronted the Waif in a hideout and put out the only light in the room. Arya best the Waif due to her proficiency in fighting without sight (which, ironically, was trained by the Waif). Arya killed her adversary.ONE THING ABOUT CHALLENGES IN LIFE IS: THROUGH THEM, WE LEARN HOW TO OVERCOME THEM. Always Pay Attention!
— Olaotan Fawehinmi, The Soldier Within
we were not born the same and we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no matter what seed God has given to us, be it small or big, He expects a good returns from us in the end and we must endeavor to be good stewards and managers of our abilities and capabilities regardless of where we live and the challenges we face!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill on the way which may seem to be the end of the journey, but should a pilgrim of life climb such a mountain with tenacity and courage and gets to its apex, he would not only deeply feel and understand the tenacity and the courage it takes to climb the mountain, but he would also see ahead and have a clearer picture of the way forward better!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
we were not born the same, we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no matter what seed God has given to us, be it small or big, He expects a good returns from us in the end and we must endeavor to be good stewards and managers of our abilities and capabilities regardless of where we live and the challenges we face!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
And when the end comes, we shall see the end. We shall see and understand how we started better. We shall see those who started well and those who ended well. When the end comes, we shall surely see the end!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Challenges are what make life interesting
—  overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The depth of your challenges will determine the heights of your success in life
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
The best way to get through any challenge is to step back, look up at the sky, breathe deeply in and out, smile if you have to…then dive in.
— Waylon H. Lewis
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.
— Maya Angelou
Challenges that go along with our desires are simply there to make sure we are ready and really want what we have asked for. We are all instruments of the divine, the possibilities within us are endless. Putting expectations aside, we allow ourselves room to really experience these miracles as they unfold.
— Camille Lucy, The (Real) Love Experiment: Explore Love, Relationships & the Self
Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
The universe is perfect. All fault lies within the self.
— Whitney Hale
Every beginning is a new challenge. I welcome the challenges
— Mohammed Sekouty
I believe in Jesus Christ. He said deny me in front of your friends & I will deny you in front of my father.
— Werley Nortreus
Writing a story no one else dares to say, sits outside my comfort zone, is one of the biggest challenges I'm facing as an author.
— Veronica Purcell
Sometimes, our greatest obstacles are breathtakingly beautiful challenges. Rise to the challenge!
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
Wish for the best, problems will follow you, challenges will come in the way when you move on, and your wisdom of learning will save you!
— Nazim Ambalath
It was something I learned then. That you could take the crumpled remains of something destroyed and smooth them into newness. You could pretend certain things weren't happening even if you had seen or felt them. Everything done can be denied.
— Nayomi Munaweera, What Lies Between Us
It takes physical, spiritual and mental preparation to overcome the life challenges.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Mountains are like Challenges... I climb upon them and then face them ..
— Sagar Gosavi
For some folks fate has set countless falls and a fewer loves. If they farewell faith, then, farewell their chance of lifelong happiness.
— Darmie O-Lujon
Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.
— Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process.
— April Mae Monterrosa
The tragedies of our past are the stepping stones for us to reach the happy endings of our tomorrows. Guilt is not going to help you become a better person. Acceptance will.
— Yara Greathouse, Dismantled
You're unstoppable not because you're stronger than your challenges/competitors. It's because you're consistent. You won’t quit easily!!!
— Assegid Habtewold
Sometimes we’re caught off guard and asked to do something we may not want to do, something outside our comfort zone—a favor, a challenge. We could be mocked or ridiculed. Or maybe we’ll doubt ourselves, but we can’t let fear rule. Sometimes in life, we have to dance.
— Jake Byrne, First and Goal: What Football Taught Me About Never Giving Up
Every opportunity has challenges when you overcome it turns to rewards.
— Nazim Ambalath
Shit happens everyday. How you deal with it makes all the difference.
— Laarni Venus Marie Giango
A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
You are stronger than your challenges and your challenges are making you stronger.
— Karen Salmansohn
Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.
— Ashish Patel
Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass will always be an indomitable majority.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It was her, something about her- whenever she did something that felt like a raw invitation, he simply went mad in his effort to take up the gauntlet.
— Jacquelyn Frank, Cursed by Fire
In order to be successful, Teenagers need to be practical as challenges they are faceing in modern life are numerous and complex.
— Kishore Bansal
It’s only when we understand that who we become during, and after hard times is more important than the challenges, that we embrace messes are channels of important messages meant to upgrade our lives.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
Challenges bring opportunity for growth.
— Theresa Larsen, Cutting the Soul: A journey into the mental illness of a teenager through the eyes of his mother
Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There exist words of mediocrity, songs of mediocrity, and life lessons of mediocrity. Advice of mediocrity, books of mediocrity and companions of mediocrity are also available.One may also meet songs of purpose that can make us ponder to wonder and advice filled with authority to dare in life. We may also hear life lessons that can challenge and change us. What do you listen to? If what you listen to will not make you, it will mar you.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase,And marvel men should quit their easy chair,The toilsome way, and long, long leagues to trace,Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air,And life that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
— George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Challenges are lessons to be learned,then overcome.
— Lee Bice-Matheson
Rise flexibly, courageously and perseveringly upon the challenges and trials in our life. Beneath the depth of fresh wounds, heavy cross and years of scars, is our wise silent mind, a beating faithful heart with understanding and patience matched with a humble soul who walks with hope towards charity, kindness, peace and harmony.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
There's always next level, new decisions, and new episode. My life inspired by challenges
— Desmond Oshifeso
Always bet on the underdog. They've got ambition and nothing to lose.
— Clint Borgen
There is always a solution to any challenging situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is easy to climb the ladder of success if one is working on issues and aeas which are not frequented by the masses, provided one is ready to face challenges.
— Vishwas Chavan, Vishwasutras: Universal Principles for Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences
The is no master in love, WE are all learners.
— Rudzani Ralph
It’s great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading. Part of the value of a humanistic education has to do with a consciousness of, and a familiarity with, the limits that you’ll spend the rest of your life talking about and pushing against.
— Joshua Rothman
Remember, today's challenges are tomorrow's testimonies.
— Nancy Alcorn, Mercy Moves Mountains: Heart-Gripping Stories of God's Extraordinary Mercy and Grace to Troubled Young Girls
It’s about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life is never against you because you are the one who is creating it.
— Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love.
— Adele Devine, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!
— Jorge Cruise
The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.
— Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
We are the mountains we must cross.
— Marty Rubin
Your life oppositions will position or disposition you in the best or worst way depending how you position or disposition your oppositions.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
Boy! There are times when I get the feeling that science develops things that are supposed to be good for us, but that just make trouble.”Dr. Tresselt’s blue eyes seemed to throw out sparks of amusement. “I know how you feel, Joe,” he said. “But my stars, boy, nobody can be alive and never have any trouble! Being alive is just meeting troubles every day and overcoming them. Just to stand up straight against the pull of gravity is a fight, isn’t it?
— Jay Williams, Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave
I never drank from the fountain of knowledge, I had mine on the rocks.
— Tim Fargo
One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.
— Tom Clancy, The Cardinal of the Kremlin
It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Every challenge is a chance to become a champion.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Overcoming the Challenges of Life
Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all—even air.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you’ve come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing?
— Teresa Hirst
Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!And then taking that experience to help others...
— Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, 108 Ways to Grab My Apples
I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.
— Yanni
In order to defeat our challengers and rise above every obstacle, we must be able to persevere.
— Ellen J. Barrier
When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
If only either of us knew the challenges a simple word like forever could bring.
— Kaitlyn Oruska, The Consequences of Forever
You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Every great leader has incredible odds to overcome.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life's challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things.
— Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
I welcome challenges. I triumph on them, it helps me grow. Without the challenges that I have faced, I may not be where I am at all.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Here I am," I say to the palm trees. "I can do this. Watch me.
— Eileen Granfors, The Pinata-Maker's Daughter
I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there's something far better beyond where we are at the moment. It can hurt, but then later you say "thank you." I have been pushed and shoved and have fallen out and away, so very, very, many, many times! And others around me have not! But then, the others haven't seen what I have seen or felt what I have felt or been who I have been, they can't become what I have become. I am me.
— C. JoyBell C.
If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.
— Brené Brown
Use what you've been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
— Amelia Earhart, The Fun of It
I was raised to face any challenge.
— Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels
It was to remind me how lucky we are that the beggar was placed in my path. You see, some people live all their lives without knowing which path is right. They're buffeted by this wind or that and never really know where they're going. That's largely the fate of commoners-those who have no choice over their destiny.For those of us born as samurai, life is something else. We know the path of duty and we follow it without question. But even that may not be easy because there may be insurmountable obstacles. Such as what that blind beggar faces. He might have a secret dream of revenge against an oppressor too. He might have justice on his side as we do now, but there is nothing he can do about it. I say we're lucky-we know what has to be done and it's within out capability to make it happen!…Remember, there's sacrifice involved in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it. Those who realize this are the fortunate ones. Those who know and can try. What more can a man ask for than that?
— John Allyn, The 47 Ronin Story
Every success I have ever had or will have in the future comes not solelyfrom my own ambition and hard work, but also from those that have encouraged,supported and challenged me. Success is never, ever a one person job.
— T.S. Tate
Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.
— Jon M. Huntsman Sr., Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times
Of all challenges, convincing dumb ones is the most difficult. Manipulation works better in such cases if your heart allows.
— Ravindra Shukla
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
— Voltaire
For so many years I lived in constant terror of myself. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree. I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind.But finally, finally, I have learned to break free.
— Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth moveDoubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...'You never can tell...' he answered.'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!
— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. 
— Warren Buffett
Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)
— Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
— Guy de Maupassant, Complete Works
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
— Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
— Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.
— Craig Ferguson
I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
— Yann Martel
Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.
— Anthony Liccione
In a fight, your doubt is a target of enemy's attack.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.
— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
When people feel doubt in their hearts, a certainty might be felt in an ice cream.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)
— Nancy Werlin
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.
— Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
Questioning anything within doubt, will just bring mind to no certainty.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
— Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ....."As distance always doesn't ensure solutions
— Adil Adam Memon
Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.
— Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?
— Shūsaku Endō, Silence
I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.
— Soheir Khashoggi, Nadia's Song
The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,but it tends to demean other people's beliefs.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
You are the only miracle that I have no doubt.
— M.F. Moonzajer
You want more light in your house? Enlarge your windows! You want more truth in your life? Doubt everything!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Life wasn't about doubt, because if it was, we'd never get anything done.
— Aishabella Sheikh, Jungle Princess
Only the dull don’t doubt!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The question that is upon my lips (please forgive me) is the doubt in your heart
— Jeremy Aldana
...The less I think of it the more certain I am.
— Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heardby listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals, but to whole towns and entire tribes. What hand could snatch it and save two small, defenseless children?
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender her to Mr. Rawlinson; he himself would not fall into his father's arms and would not hear from his lips that he had acted like a true Pole! The end, the end! In a few days the sun would shine only upon the lifeless bodies and afterwards would dry them up into a semblance of those mummies which slumber in an eternal sleep in the museums in Egypt
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
Doubt isn't original.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Doubt is the thing that’ll kill you, the only thing, and it’ll kill your friends, too.
— Ron Leshem, Beaufort
Even the worst outcome we can imagine will ultimately benefit us. It is because of that law of favor-ability that the Universe is able to continue and we are able to bring about the fruition of our plans.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers
Everything that has been wrestled from doubtI welcome-the mouths that burst open afterlong knowledge of what it is to be mute.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I put a big slab of butter into the pan. The Olekseis didn't give one damn about health, which made them refreshing to cook for, and my motto was pretty much, 'When in doubt, add butter.'Right now, I was definitely in doubt.I added more butter.
— Beth Harbison, When in Doubt, Add Butter
...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.
— René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy
To doubt is to deny the divinity of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
[D]oubt, the principle of theoretic freedom, appears to me a crime. … [T]he highest crime is doubt in God, or the doubt that God exists. … [T]hat which I do not trust myself to doubt, … without feeling disturbed in my soul, without incurring guilt; that is no matter of theory, but a matter of conscience[.]
— Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
Faith, Hope, Trust, Belief are all the same consequences of Doubt.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189
— Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
They say "doubt everything," but I disagree. Doubt is useful in small amounts, but too much of it leads to apathy and confusion. No, don't doubt everything. QUESTION everything. That's the real trick. Doubt is just a lack of certainty. If you doubt everything, you'll doubt evolution, science, faith, morality, even reality itself - and you'll end up with nothing, because doubt doesn't give anything back. But questions have answers, you see. If you question everything, you'll find that a lot of what we believe is untrue...but you might also discover that some things ARE true. You might discover what your own beliefs are. And then you'll question them again, and again, eliminating flaws, discovering lies, until you get as close to the truth as you can.Questioning is a lifelong process. That's precisely what makes it so unlike doubt. Questioning engages with reality, interrogating all it sees. Questioning leads to a constant assault on the intellectual status quo, where doubt is far more likely to lead to resigned acceptance. After all, when the possibility of truth is doubtful (excuse the pun), why not simply play along with the most convenient lie?Questioning is progress, but doubt is stagnation.
— Tom Jubert / Jonas Kyratzes
Don’t be tossed away by your monkey mind. You say you want to do something—“I really want to be a writer”—then that little voice comes along, “but I might not make enough money as a writer.” “Oh, okay, then I won’t write.” That’s being tossed away. These little voices are constantly going to be nagging us. If you make a decision to do something, you do it. Don’t be tossed away. But part of not being tossed away is understanding your mind, not believing it so much when it comes up with all these objections and then loads you with all these insecurities and reasons not to do something.
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Never ever have any doubt on yourself. You are the priceless species in this world.Don't undermine yourself by comparing with others. You are a victor!!!
— Santosh Adbhut Kumar
A leader who is confused about the route sows doubt.
— Oscar Bimpong
I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
Well, they say there is no real faith without doubt.
— Lorna Jane Cook, Outside Wonderland
Doubt is the first ray of illumination
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Doubt is horrible feature... we all doubt that's the worst part and the worse episode in this season of doubt.
— Deyth Banger
If gifted with unbelief, even when the train of success stops at your doorstep you will still miss it.
— Auliq-Ice
This capacity for objectivity and absoluteness amounts to an existential — and “preventive” — refutation of the ideologies of doubt: if a man is able to doubt, it is because there is certainty; likewise the very notion of illusion proves that man has access to reality. It follows that there are necessarily some men who know reality and who therefore have certainty; and the great spokesmen of this knowledge and certainty are necessarily the best of men. For if truth were on the side of doubt, the individual who doubted would be superior not only to these spokesmen, who have not doubted, but also to the majority of normal men across the millennia of human existence. If doubt conformed to the real, human intelligence would be deprived of its sufficient reason, and man would be less than an animal, for the intelligence of animals does not doubt the reality to which it is proportioned.
— Frithjof Schuon, Logic and Transcendence
I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the top of the pile."But if you doubt everything," the Tralgu said, "how can anything be justified?""Tentatively. And subject to later examination. It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty. I don't believe we can say that.
— Daniel Abraham, The Dragon's Path
Doubts are necessary
—  they keep us on the right path
People SHOULD be doubted. Many people misunderstand this concept. Doubting people is just a part of getting to know them. What many people call ‘trust’ is really just giving up on trying to understand others, and that very act is far worse than doubting. It is actually ‘apathy.
— Shinobu Kaitani, Liar Game, Volume 4
Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It's true that Thomas was a doubter, but he was not a cynic, and that's an important distinction. Cynics often look for reasons not to believe and won't be moved by something beautiful—just to make a point—even if it's staring them down. Thomas wasn't a cynic, he was a hopeful doubter; he'd believe if he could.
— Jonathan Martin, Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?
There isn't any doubt I make strange combinations, but what to do on that problem?
— Deyth Banger
A valid answer comes when the question is lived.
— Elizabeth Vongsaravanh