Quotes about Challenge

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man—you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind—I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in.

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee!

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

To find truth, one must travel a dense fog!

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.