Quotes about Challenge

I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.

T]hose who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.

Those who fled will fight another time.

What appears like a problem is merely a place where a miracle awaits.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder;

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.