Quotes About Challenge

[T]he person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Faith makes things possible, not easy.

Some torture Fate beyond recognition rather than let him have his way.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

You might be a firefighter if you had to extricate someone by cutting the car doors off on one side and realized there was nothing wrong with the doors on the other side.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Revolutions are not made with rose water.

We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.

But cards are war in disguise of a sport...

Egotism, n.: doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

...and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go.

It is only the first step that is difficult.

There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.

Golf is just a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

As a matter of fact, golf is the most rigid tester of will-power in the world.

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

It has been a task in my practice of yoga to feel the unlimited aspects of Self as well as to explore and challenge the physical aspects — both pleasant and painful. This challenge is emotional, intellectual, psychological, physical, and spiritual.

Cleanliness is next to impossible.

I fought the lawn and the lawn won.

Now, you red-eyed devil, he said

You can no more make water run up hill than can you cause the tide of economic evolution to flow back in its channel along the way it came.

One rifle, one blanket, twenty bottles of hooch. Rifle broke. She said this last scornfully, as though disgusted at how low her maiden-value had been rated.

The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone.