Quotes About Challenge

Brooke's deputy, General Sir John Kennedy, observed of Churchill: "He is difficult enough when things are going badly, more difficult when nothing is happening, and quite unmanageable when all is going well.

Some fired, others balked. Decanted onto a strange, dark shore, many men feared shooting their own. The hillsides hissed with the night's challenge and countersign: "Hi yo, Silver!" and "Awaaay!

If you didn't play the plebe system as if it were a game, he thought, it could be a debilitating ordeal.

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The faults were clear enough: the greatest of them was an initial lack of appreciation of the possibilities of the enemy; a certain indiscipline of mind; a tendency towards exaggeration

Lincoln had inelegantly called "the tired spot that can't be got at.

I want to fight the champ," he said. "If you lose, you've lost to the champ and it's no disgrace. If you win, you're the new champ.

Senior officers in First Army would spend the rest of their lives trying to explain the tactical logic behind the Hürtgen battle plan. "All we could do was sit back and pray to God that nothing would happen," General Thorson, the operations officer, later lamented. "It was a horrible business, the forest.… We had the bear by the tail, and we just couldn't turn loose.

more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England's west coast. For all these vessels to shoot the Strait of Gibraltar in sequence and arrive punctually at various Barbary coast beaches, the two-week voyage must, in Churchill's phrase, "fit together like a jewelled bracelet." The challenge had roused the Royal Navy to

The more stars you have, the higher you climb the flagpole, the more of your ass is exposed

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

Dodging potholes so old and deep that the devil must use them as a shortcut home...

My Uncle Jimbo never challenged a man to a duel to defend his honor, but he did win a $20 bet by eating a bologna sandwich while sitting on a dead mule. My grandmother prayed a tornado away, and punched a city woman in the eye.

Because everyone is an expert when it's not their dog in the road.

Does he bite?" the driver asked. "He even bites me," I said. He picked a fight with whatever the world brought him, and that day it happened to be a Lincoln. I don't think he would have hurt the driver, but he sure would have messed up a nice suit. The next week he did it again, and the next.

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

Not only that, if he double-bogeyed out, he'd break 100, which would be on a par with a lobster climbing out of the tank at Jimmy's Seafood Grill, taking the stage and whistling the entire score of Cats. "Gentlemen, we

My dad had a framed picture of a surfer on a giant wave in his den. The wave always looked so huge. My Papa told me that was life. This giant thing trying to get you that you had to find pleasure in riding.

Hmm…" Jason snapped his fingers. I can call a friend for a ride." Percy raised his eyebrows. Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

This is how it should be done' but rather 'This is how we are currently doing it today, it's up to you to show us how it's done tomorrow'.