Quotes About Challenge

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?