Quotes About Challenge

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

I'm playing against men who are bigger and stronger than I'm used to. I've definitely got to bulk up at some point.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.