Quotes About Challenge

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Calamity was ordained for man.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.