Quotes About Challenge

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

Hiking is really great for centering; you get to be out in nature and although sometimes it seems like hell when you're getting up that mountain, it always feels good when you're done.