Quotes About Challenge

We dance the dance of death with our hands tied behind our backs.

We fight our whole lives to build and watch how easy it is for such constructions to fall.

Your heart will get you into trouble, but your strong mind will get you out of it.

It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow; only a few will be able to savour this bitter fruit with impunity. Consequently, shrinking soul, turn on your heels and go back before penetrating further into such uncharted, perilous wastelands. Listen well to what I say: turn on your heels and go back, not forward,[...]

My poetry will consist only in the attack by all means in my power upon Man, that wild beast, and the Creator, who should never have created such vermin. Volumes shall pile upon volumes until the end of my life, but only that one idea will be found therein . . . that one thought ever present in my consciousness!

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.

What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.

No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.

You can't just wound the bear and run. He'll come after you.

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

A man must feel a little bit of fear, even if just to fell pride when he conquers it.

No one escapes his fate, whether brave or coward, not from the moment he is born.' – Homer, The Iliad

He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan's vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.

Within two years, they would be attacking us . The emperor has seen what we can do and he will not make the same mistakes again. One chance we have made for ourselves, Khasar. You cannot wound a bear and run. It will chase you down.

When I think that I've mastered the game, it appears that every time I discover that I was playing blindly on some larger board.

Life is not easy, but, at least, it can be simple.

What good is in dexterity of playing with logic when your weak soul retreats from difficulties?

There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son

If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a man to ignore a naked challenge to his authority. The Mongol army moved and millions would die.

Fight for every breath and every step.