Quotes About Challenge

You may be amazed at how tough you can become with a little practice – and that will be an extra reward of the risk-taker's way of life.

No matter how you define success, risk is a necessary ingredient of every successful life. Risk puts you in position to win.

Yet they persevered because a lethal cocktail of pride, fatalism, stupidity, and moral weakness prevented them from acknowledging their blunder.

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

Life is a hard school for u know not wat level of class u r in, wat exam u will have, and u can't copy bcoz nobody else has the same paper… HARSHIT AGRAWAL

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods, Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless Against them while they stand so.

he played chess only in his mind, building up steam for the moment when he would meet the champion.

Trying to drown me woman?" 'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?' 'God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle.

To fly we have to have resistance.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Fear drove people to do things they'd never imagine themselves capable of just to avoid it.

The kind of trouble that was the downfall of many men.

Boj se ovna, boj se govna, a kada ?u živjeti?

Pobuna! Je li to samo re?, ili je misao? Ako je misao, onda je moja misao, ili moja zabluda. Ako je zabluda teško meni; ako je istina, teško meni još više.

Life always sinks downward. It takes effort to avoid that.

Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls and nothing's ever worth the cost.

Every war has it's turning points, and every person too.

The open road. What a trio of words. What a vision of blue sky and untouched hills and narrow trails heading God knew where and being free—free and hungry, free and cold, free and wet, free and lost. Who could mourn such conditions, faced with the alternative?

Che ti piaccia o no, le cose succedono e una volta che cominciano a succedere devi solo tenere duro e stare a vedere dove ti mollano quando finiscono.

Tennis, as we know, was not my sport. Sport, in fact, was not my sport.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.