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Quotes About Challenge

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
~ Sophocles
Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
~ Stanislaw Lem
It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
~ Tupac Shakur
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
~ Vaclav Havel
He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.
~ William Shakespeare
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
~ Charles de Gaulle
What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?
~ Charles Lindbergh
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
~ Clarence Darrow
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
~ Elbert Hubbard
MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.
~ Enson Inoue
Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
~ Esi Edugyan
The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.
~ Gordon Ramsay
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
~ Monica Bellucci
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
~ Bram Stoker
I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)
~ Daphne du Maurier
I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'
~ Kristoffer Polaha
I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.
~ Max Brooks
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel
~ Paul Goodman
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
~ Alan Cumming
ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
~ Ambrose Bierce
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
~ Ambrose Bierce
What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.
~ Anacharsis Cloots
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
~ Andre Gide