Quotes About Challenge

If something doesn't break soon, I'm going to look like a Brillo pad made of nerve endings.

You always have to do things before you think you are ready,: Rolan observed. :That's just life.:

but with the intensity of a twelve-year-old I turned in fury against a God who could treat us that way.

Any blisters on your shoulder blades would weep painfully, as the weight of the pack went back on. Then somehow your mind would shut out the pain, for a while. Until, by the end of the march, your shoulders would start to wilt and cramp up as if they were on fire.

Sometimes you have just got to tackle these mountains head-on.

The DS had told us the parameters – run, you pass; walk, you fail.

The thing about a 'comfort zone' is that it sounds, well, just too comfortable – and when you are too comfortable you lose your edge. That's why I call it a comfort pit, because a pit is somewhere you want to get out of as fast as possible.

Say why not? rather than why?

A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.

Three words that are the beating heart behind why many explorers or adventurers do what they do. 'Because it's there.

These made Trucker and me look back on the summer Selection days as quite balmy and pleasant! It is strange how accustomed you become to hardship, and how what once seemed horrific can soon become mundane.

You can't keep on top of the world for ever.

There is no education like adversity. --Benjamin Disraeli

It was like climbing a mountain of waist-deep molasses while giving someone a fireman's carry, who, for good measure, was also trying to force a pair of frozen socks into your mouth. Nice.

None of this was in the game plan for my life. I had been hit hard, broadside and from left field, in a way I could never have imagined. Things like this just didn't happen to me. I was always the lucky kid. But rogue balls from left field can often be the making of us.

Sir Edmund Hillary, Everest's first conqueror, once said that the mountains gave him strength. I'd never really understood this until now. But it was intoxicating. Something deep inside me knew that I could do this.

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

The greatest journeys all start with a single step.

Success, in life and adventure, is dependent on the retraining of our mind.

We can't always choose our circumstances but we can choose how we respond to what life throws at us, and there is power when we realize our ability to alter our destiny. A life in the wild has taught me not to fear the unexpected, but to embrace it. In fact, I have learnt that those curve balls from left-field are very often the making of us.

So suddenly here we are. Six years on. I genuinely never believed we would film more than six episodes of Man vs. Wild , let alone six seasons. I mean, where has the time gone? I also really had no idea quite how many hellholes, remote jungles, stinking swamps, searing deserts, and forbidding, unexplored mountain ranges we have on this small planet of ours. People forget. Me included.

I quietly wonder: When did all this craziness become my world?

Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? Is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.

Few people try, because few people dare. And most don't want to give up on the easy.