Quotes About Challenge

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Yessir. A crutch, like one-legged men always have.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.

if the GVN did not soon show a capacity to beat back the Vietcong challenge-and on its own, without increased American participation. "If the conclusion is reached that the Viet Cong are not being beaten," one analyst at the Foreign Office wrote in late summer, "the only alternative is negotiation." The West's bargaining position would be poor, this and other British analysts agreed, but the likely end result, a reunified, Titoist Vietnam, would be acceptable. ("The

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.

He that seeks trouble never misses.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

The difficult is what takes a little time, the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Ich wurde ein immer besserer Verbrecher und du ein immer besserer Kriminalist.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.

Life always gets harder toward the summit—the cold increases, responsibility increases.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none.

For believe me! - the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!… Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer!

Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue

When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath - or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help!