Quotes About Challenge

You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge.

Chess demands total concentration

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes.

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

The top is not forever. Either you walk down, or you are going to be kicked down.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

With success comes expectation, and I know the expectation on me is going to be pretty high.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

Fear is a healthy part of success.

Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position