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Quotes About Challenge

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me
~ Muhammad Ali
Daring is not safe against daring men.
~ Ovid
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.
~ Reuben Fine
Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
~ Harry S. Truman
It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
~ Herbert Hoover
I had no desire to crash a man's world.
~ Ida Lupino
As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.
~ Jacques Roumain
If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.
~ Janet Campbell Hale
The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.
~ Jeremy Brett
There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.
~ Jimmy Thompson
Every man has his devilish minutes.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
~ John William Fletcher
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
~ Russell Baker
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.
~ Simon Newcomb
History is rarely made by reasonable men.
~ Terry Goodkind
Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: 'Faster!' He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.
~ Tim Krabbe
Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?
~ Westbrook Pegler
How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?
~ Christopher Fry
To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman
~ Deepa Mehta