Quotes about Challenge

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain." Jack Kerouac

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

The whole purpose of mountain-climbing to me isn't just to show off you can get to the top, it's getting out to this wild country.

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.