Quotes About Challenge

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times.

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March

Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.