#Challenge Quotes

“O, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”

“When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.”

“Extremity is the trier of spirits.”

“The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.”

“They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.”

“The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.”

“Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark”

“Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.”

“Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.”

“Every wall is a door.”

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.”

“Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!”

“Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.”

“Fear is a great instructor.”

“You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.”

“We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.”

“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

“The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.”

“Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.”

“And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.”

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.”

“What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?”

“You do your worst, and we'll do our best.”

“Life is a test and this world a place of trial.”

“Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.”

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”

“...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.”

“... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.”

“My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.”

“The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!”

“It's not going to be easy, it's going to be worth it.”

“Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”

“Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.”

“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”

“A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.”

“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”

“The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.”

“The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.”

“So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.”

“Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.”

“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.”

“The strenuous life tastes better”

“As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!”

“The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.”

“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.”

“All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.”