Quotes About Challenge

Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not

We can never achieve success without suffering !!

I had mixed feelings for the proposed deal: I hated tests but adored challenges.

Live your life whether it is easy or not. Remember that there will be a moment where all of it will be of value.

Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.

We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint....

Five men went forward, Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Seaman Evans. They reached the Pole on January 17 to find that Amundsen had reached it thirty-four days earlier. They returned 721 statute miles and perished 177 miles from their winter quarters.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

Generally the risks were taken, for, on the whole, it is better to be a little over-bold than a little over-cautious, while always there was a something inside urging you to do it just because there was a certain risk, and you hardly liked not to do it. It is so easy to be afraid of being afraid!

For an hour or so we were furiously angry, and were possessed with an insane sense that we must go straight to the Bay of Whales and have it out with Amundsen and his men in some undefined fashion or other there and then. Such a mood could not and did not bear a moment's reflection; but it was natural enough. We had just paid the first instalment of the heart-breaking labour of making a path to the Pole; and we felt, however unreasonably, that we had earned the first right of way.

A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honour as long as you can put one foot before the other.

More than once in my short life I have been struck by the value of the man who is blind to what appears to be a common-sense certainty: he achieves the impossible.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

before dawn of another day I would be swimming for my life in mid-ocean, under water and on the surface, in a temperature of 28 degrees Fahrenheit!

It's the rough side of the mountain that's the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn't have anything for you to hang on to.

Asking a teenager to get up at 7 a.m. is like asking me to get up at 4 a.m.

Es terrible perder una guerra. -Casi tan terrible como ganarla.

if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

You will never make the crab walk straight.

Sir, sir what good are words? They are of no avail with wild beasts of this sort. Don't you know how they have just washed us down--and with no very fragrant soap!

A man can learn wisdom even from a foe

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.