Quotes About Challenge

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

A kite flies against the wind, not with it.

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

In one respect a cavalry charge is very like ordinary life. So long as you are all right, firmly in your saddle, your horse in hand, and well armed, lots of enemies will give you a wide berth. But as soon as you have lost a stirrup, have a rein cut, have dropped your weapon, are wounded, or your horse is wounded, then is the moment when from all quarters enemies rush upon you. Such

Bolsheviks create their own difficulties which they successfully overcame later.

Wave after wave, dark with storm, crested with foam, surged towards the harbour in which we still sheltered. Should we drive out into the teeth of the gale, or should we bide contented where we were? Yet beyond the breakers was a great hope.

This day, we are masters of our fate; the task which has been set before us is not above our strengths; its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance.

Mr. Jorrocks has described fox hunting as providing all the glory of war with only thirty-five percent of its danger.

they meant to test the ground; and in so doing they were prepared to go to the very edge of the precipice. It is so easy to lose one's balance there: a touch, a gust of wind, a momentary dizziness, and all is precipitated into the abyss.

Golf Like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

How hard to build. How easy to evacuate. How hard to capture. How easy to do nothing. How hard to achieve anything. War is action, energy & hazard. These sheep only want to browse among the daisies.

Nothing…is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

the threat of adversity is a necessary factor in stimulating self-reliance.

If you are a great general,' said Pompaedius Silo to Marius, 'come down and fight.' 'If you are a great general,' was the famous answer, 'make me fight against my will.

Now mark me well—it is provided in the essence of things, that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.' —WALT WHITMAN, The Open Road.

A wall of crystal, utterly immovable, began to tower up in the Narrows, and against this wall of inhibition no weapon could be employed. The 'No' principle had become established in men's minds, and nothing could ever eradicate it.

Many things were adopted in the war which we were told were technically impossible, but patience, perseverance, and above all the spur of necessity under war conditions, made men's brains act with greater vigour, and science responded to the demands….

Hard as are the tests of battle, the armies of all nations have withstood them. But here was the long gnawing strain of suffering much and talking more, of having little and doing nothing.

It was not through wrong judgment that they failed, but through want of will-power. In such times the Kingdom of Heaven can only be taken by storm.

One thing is absolutely certain, namely, that victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance.

One begins to see, for instance, that painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

Siempre se dice que no hay que tratar de hacer más de lo que uno puede y que hay que estar seguros de lo que uno trata de conseguir, pero este principio, como tantos otros en la vida y en la guerra, tiene excepciones. Hay

You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge.

a letter of the great Duke of Marlborough, in which he said: "To remove a General in the midst of a campaign—that is the mortal stroke.