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Quotes About Challenge

Young Man. Aoife is far away. I am alone. I have come alone in the midst of you To weigh this sword against Cuchullain's sword.
~ W.B. Yeats
Barach. There, he is down! He is up again! He is going out into the deep water.
~ W.B. Yeats
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
~ W.E.B DuBois
The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
~ W.H. Auden
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.
~ Unknown
The Hydra calls me but I am used to it It calls me Everybody But I know my name and do not answer
~ W.S. Merwin
A long time ago the lightening was practicing Something I thought was easy
~ W.S. Merwin
I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.
~ W.S. Merwin
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.
~ Richard Reti
I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.
~ Unknown
Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.
~ Bill Hicks
I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.
~ Ry Cooder
There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
~ Eva Figes
Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.
~ George A. Sheehan
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
~ Gerry Spence
I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.
~ Alexandra Breckenridge
To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.
~ Morgan Spurlock
The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble.
~ Malcolm X
Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
~ Zoe Saldana
Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark
~ Duncan Fletcher
I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.
~ Hope Edelman
When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.
~ Jim Rohn
A person always has a chance to protest this or that.
~ Jesse Ball