Quotes About Challenge

I had hoped for something. Defeat? No. Something more. There isn't anything more. Except victory. It may be worse.

Ernest Hemingway

It was easier to live under a regime than to fight it. But

Inaccrochable - A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein

The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?

hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong.

To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.

He wants to stay in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.

We, in games, are not fascinated by death, its nearness and its avoidance. We are fascinated by victory and we replace the avoidance of death by the avoidance of defeat.

But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures

Jak jsi vlastnÄ› zbankrotoval?" zeptal se Bill. "Dvojím zp?sobem," Ã…â"¢ekl Mike. "NejdÃ…â"¢ív postupnÄ› a potom naráz.

If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.

they're too big. If that doesn't offer a pleasure, then why do fishing?

One gains, the other loses, and only the weaklings are bothered with that.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." - Santiago

I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.

The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned, into the fish's side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man's chest. He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it.

You were fighting against exactly what you were doing and being forced into doing to have any chance of winning

But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

we are all bitched from the start

I'll kick you in the face!

Only the impossible is ever worth doing at all.

MyÅ›lÄ™, ?e dostajemy takie karty, jak nam rozdajÄ…. Nie mógÅ'byÅ› ich jeszcze raz przetasowa?, rozdawco? – rozmyÅ›laÅ'. -Nie. Karty rozdajÄ… tylko raz, a potem je zbierasz i grasz nimi. PotrafiÄ™ zagra?, je?eli tylko wyciÄ…gnÄ™ coÅ› dobrego – powiedziaÅ' do portretu, na którym to nie wywarÅ'o ?adnego wra?enia.

And what beat you, he thought. Nothing, he said aloud. I went out too far.