Quotes About Challenge

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She's a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Alright, manly man," he says. "Go prove that you're a man.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.