Quotes About Challenge

Shut up!" Joe's tone was ugly. "If you ain't willing to try, you can go to hell.

The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.

Only the innocent speak of adventure, for adventure is only a romantic name for trouble...

You don't think marriage is serious?" "Of course, I do. It is the ultimate test of maturity, and many find excuses for avoiding it because they know they are not up to the challenge, or capable of carrying on a mature relationship.

Murder? It is not easily done, amigo.

It takes a mighty fine discipline to hold men together when trouble is creeping up on you. Yet without discipline there is surely disaster. The best discipline comes from within a man, but you'll never get a party of men together where all have it. This

deck. Gavagan rushed him, getting inside and hitting him with a right to the jaw.

Most of all we needed a fat bear, for of all things, fat is the hardest to come by in the wilderness.

the world has always needed is more heretics and less authority.

He who hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprise.

There is no safety anywhere,' he said quietly, 'but you do not seem a man who is used to safety. Ride well.

slightly. "It seems we have to get rid of Ben—and quickly." "Could Dean Cullane have

is a fair land, Darby, but a raw, rough land that will use up men until it breeds the kind it needs. Well, I will be used, and I hope to have a hand in the breeding, too.

Waterways would offer the easiest route across country, but any travel was a hardship. Most who traveled understood why the word "travel" had once been "travail.

rip our bottom out.

If I catch you on my back trail, no matter what you're hunting, I'll stake each of you to six feet of northern Arizona that nobody will ever take away from you.

the very idea of taking a risk that was not demanded by circumstances was repugnant to him.

we've got! Maybe better than all of them!" "Maybe," Deke said shortly, starting

If I make one last prayer I ask that your god grant me an enemy.

opening. Sticks were broken, a fire started.

The ledge was steep, but there

you," Wildy said

Nothing in life is easy.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.