Quotes About Challenge

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him