Quotes About Challenge

For it depended entirely on me as to whether the myth of the mountain was to be transformed and the path found between the supernatural and reality. It was in me that all expectations were vested.

After every few steps, we huddle over our ice axes mouths agape, struggling for sufficient breath to keep our muscles going.... at a height of 8800 metres, we can no longer keep on our feet while we rest. We crumple to our knees, clutching our axes.... Every ten or fifteen steps we collapse into the snow to rest, then crawl on again.

ÄŒlovÄ›k by mÄ›l chodit na hory jen se sobÄ› rovnými.

All meine Grenzgänge sind ausschließlich meiner Verantwortung unterworfen. »Höhere« und unpersönliche Regeln gibt es in diesem Zusammenhang nicht. Ich fragte auch nie nach »erlaubt oder verboten«, es ging mir immer nur um »möglich oder unmöglich«. Sinn gab allein ich selbst meinem Tun.

Zufälle, das Geheimnisvolle, das jeweils Unmögliche bestimmten mein Dasein, ja mein ganzes Leben.

ÚspÄ›ch, který skon?í ve straÅ¡né katastrofÄ›, je nejhorÅ¡í ze vÅ¡ech porážek.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks

the mastery of historical destiny is a tortuous process in which powerful forces may be beguiled, deflected, and transmuted but never simply annulled or defied.

Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else.

It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.

As regards the soul, many people thought that its nature cannot easily be investigated, and some have even dared say that human reason shows us that the soul dies with the body and that the contrary view is held by faith alone; however, the Lateran Council, held under Leo X (Session 8), condemns them and explicitly commands Christian philosophers to defeat their arguments and prove the truth to the best of their abilities, and therefore I too have not hesitated to take on this challenge.

celui qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égard ni patience

I'm not frightened, merely giddy. I must break down the distance between the enemy and myself. Confront him horizontally.

If Jesus returned their looks, these angry men would not see his look as it really is but would transform it into a mirror of their own anger. Their own challenge, their own provocation, is what they would read in the look of Jesus, no matter how peaceable it really is, and they would feel provoked in return. The confrontation could no longer be avoided and would bring about what Jesus is trying to prevent, the stoning of the victim. Jesus avoids thus even the shadow of provocation. When

Conflict is one of the most difficult situations we face because it thrusts us out of our comfort zone.

The shortest distance between two points may well be the wrong way on a one way street.

I think that when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray.

I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort. Some people get a jump on the morning in other ways—

Cheat at this game.

Crises and deadlocks, when they occur, have at least this advantage that they force us to think. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Most sports require you to master the movements of only your own body to be successful. The combat grappling arts, such as jujitsu, require you to become the master not only of your own movement but also that of your opponent—a far more difficult and complex task.

We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring.

If you can't solve a problem, manage it.