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Quotes About Challenge

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
~ Bernard Malamud
There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
~ Bruce Lee
To be a man you've gotta beat the man.
~ Ric Flair
A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.
~ Ken Singleton
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
~ Joe Strummer
You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.
~ Casey Stengel
Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.
~ Rocky Marciano
The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.
~ David Deida
The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.
~ Roald Amundsen
The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.
~ Doyle Brunson
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
~ Albert Camus
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
~ Chinua Achebe
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
~ Chuck Yeager
Man has become great through struggle
~ Adolf Hitler
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Men, today we die a little.
~ Emil Zatopek
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
~ Shirley Chisholm
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
~ Saul Alinsky
It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.
~ Charles Bukowski
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
~ Petrarch
Every man is his own worst enemy
~ Christina, Queen of Sweden
Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.
~ Charles Ives
Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" "But no living man am I!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien