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Quotes About Challenge

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.
~ Stan Kelly-Bootle
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
~ Thomas a Kempis
No man is without his load of trouble.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.
~ Thomas Reed
It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
~ Yulia Tymoshenko
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
~ Herman Melville
Victory passes back and forth between men.
~ Homer
Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
A big part of dating for men is the huntthe chase.
~ Jesse Palmer
If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.
~ Joshua Harris
People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.
~ Leigh Bardugo
Men meet; mountains, never.
~ Lewis Cass
Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.
~ Charles Barkley
The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.
~ Dannah Gresh
When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
~ Don Epperson
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.
~ Frederick Exley
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
~ H. L. Mencken
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.
~ Napoleon Hill
No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire
~ Nicholas Evans
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
~ Norman Vincent Peale