Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there’s an ocean, we cross it; if there’s a disease, we cure it; if there’s a wrong, we right it; if there’s a record, we break it; and finally, if there’s a mountain, we climb it.
—James Ramsey Ullman
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
—James Ramsey Ullman
Topics: Instincts, Reason, Civilization
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
—James Ramsey Ullman
Topics: Vision, Doing Your Best
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