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Quotes About Challenge

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
~ John F. Kennedy
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
~ John Burroughs
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
~ Nick Cave
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
~ Plutarch
Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
~ Joshua Chamberlain
I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
~ William Shakespeare
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.
~ James Reston, Jr.
If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."
~ Warren G. Bennis
In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.
~ Cadmus M. Wilcox
A man's idee in a card game is war
~ Finley Peter Dunne
The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.
~ Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary.
~ George W. Bush
Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
~ Ursula Parrott
People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.
~ Jimmy Connors
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.
~ Kevin Hearne
Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.
~ Lee Child
Every war has turning points and every person too.
~ Meg Rosoff
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.
~ Sun Tzu
Death is the solution to all problems. No man-no problem.
~ Joseph Stalin