Quotes About Challenge

But a sportin' risk, young fellah, that's the salt of existence. Then it's worth livin' again. We're all gettin' a deal too soft and dull and comfy. Give me the great waste lands and the wide spaces, with a gun in my fist and somethin' to look for that's worth findin'.

There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favorite for the Wessex Cup, and the tragic murder of its trainer.

It is bad enough to have a bear in your house, but it does not seem to me to mend matters if you call in a pack of ferocious wolves as well.

Traveled a considerable distance, and would have gone to the Pole, but my matches run short and I couldn't get a smoke (Dangerous work: Dairy of an Arctic Adventures)

A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it. What

clings to any straw!

Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

Mi mente se subleva ante el estancamiento. Proporcióneme usted problemas, proporcióneme trabajo, déme los más abstrusos criptogramas o los más intrincados análisis, y entonces me encontraré en mi ambiente. Podré prescindir de estimulantes artificiales. Pero odio la aburrida monotonía de la existencia. Deseo fervientemente la exaltación mental.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill , going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course

Llevamos nuestras vidas como el agua que corre colina abajo, más o menos en una dirección, hasta que damos con algo que nos obliga a encontrar un nuevo curso.

Since the day I'd left Yoroido, I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me.

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting," he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals—true equals—only

El destino no siempre es algo semejante a una fiesta al anochecer. A veces no es más que la lucha por sobrevivir día tras día.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just

There was an office called the champion of England, which entailed none but ceremonial duties. The champion was to enter Westminster Hall on horseback, armed cap-a-pie, to challenge anyone disputing the king's rights and to throw down a glove for any challenger to pick up. Three horsemen who represented the

Arthur Hailey

roaring, on a hot, sunny day. But if any expressed surprise at the extent of preparation, Mel Bakersfeld would remind them that removing snow from the airport's operating area was equal to clearing seven hundred miles of highway. Like the Snow Desk

The pressure of the environment cramps art as it cramps behaviour. One may challenge this environment, but one has to pay for it, and the price is neurotic guilt. There never was an intelligentsia without a guilt complex; it is the income tax one has to pay for wanting to make others richer.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it.