Quotes About Challenge

Yet beginnings are also scary, for they require a new commitment.

fear of heights,

The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.

The fascination of what's difficult has dried the sap out of my veins and rent spontaneous joy and natural content out of my heart.

When I think of life as struggle with the Daimon who would ever set us to the hardest work among those not impossible, I understand why there is a deep enmity between a man and his destiny, and why a man loves nothing but his destiny.

William C. Davis

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Every life spends some time in the mud. Your faith hasn't really been tried until you have spent some time in the mud.

Life, much like so many athletic events, is largely a game of recovery.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

National Review… stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

You men! Cowards. Every one of you cowards.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

In a recent interview, he compared himself to surfers: "What are they doing this for? It's just pure. You're alone. That wave is so much bigger and stronger than you. You're always outnumbered. They always can crush you. And yet you're going to accept that and turn it into a little, brief, meaningless art form.

Buzzy Trent, an old-time big-wave rider, allegedly said, "Big waves are not measured in feet, but in increments of fear.

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

He was continually called upon to explain himself and day by day it had grown harder so that by now there didn't seem to be any words, the right phrases hadn't been coined yet.