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Quotes About Challenge

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
~ Ellen Glasgow
If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role.
~ Boy George
Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.
~ H. Bertram Lewis
Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
~ Joe Louis
Man errs as long as he struggles.
~ Johann von Goethe
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
~ Herman Melville
You can beat the Bear once, but never the same way twice.
~ John McKay
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
~ Rosalynn Carter
Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.
~ Barbara Proctor
Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
~ George Ade
Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.
~ George Cukor
In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
~ Shirley Hufstedler
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
~ Madeleine Kunin
Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.
~ Louis Binstock
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
~ Marjorie Holmes
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
~ Woody Hayes
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
~ James Reston
Failure is usually the line of least persistence.
~ Wilfred Beaver
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
~ Henrik Ibsen
Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
~ Richard Hovey
Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
~ Henry Miller
AH the fat's in the fire.
~ John Marston