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Quotes About Challenge

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
~ Voltaire
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If you want to serve the age, betray it.
~ Brendan Kennelly
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
~ Vincent Massey
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
~ Jim Bishop
We in middle age require adventure.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
~ George Foreman
Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.
~ Michael Behe
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.
~ Kenny Rogers
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.
~ Peter Drury
Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
~ Charles Bukowski
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.
~ Frank Herbert
Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it.
~ Hugh B. Brown
It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.
~ Winston Churchill
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.
~ Boyle Roche
It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.
~ Amy Purdy
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
~ Joseph Stalin
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
~ Harriet Lerner
People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.
~ Wendell Berry
The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings
~ Wendell Berry
A hood is far from an ideal garment to wear in a fistfight.
~ Wendell Berry