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Quotes About Challenge

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
~ Werner Herzog
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.
~ John W. Peterson
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
~ Plautus
I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!
~ Puggy Pearson
When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.
~ R. H. Tawney
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
~ A. A. Milne
Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
~ Louis L'Amour
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
~ Mark Twain
Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.
~ Maurice de Saxe
If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
~ Prince Philip
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
~ Robert Kennedy
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
~ Henry Fielding
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
~ Horace
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.
~ Leslie Nielsen
Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.
~ Robert S. de Ropp
It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
~ Stephen Crane
I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.
~ Wilfred Thesiger
One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.
~ Zedd
I am only one man with one heart...Call me a demon, call me a monster...but I can't be the strongest forever...!!! — Whitebeard's response to his status as the "Strongest Man in the World".
~ Eiichiro Oda
It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
~ Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
~ Albert Schweitzer
How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn