Quotes About Challenge

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

If you think nothing is impossible, try slamming a revolving door.

I think the real soldiers out there are those making it to the top of their dreams, despite the obstacles being faced.

When a woman asks you to guess her age, it's like deciding whether to cut the blue, red, or green wire to diffuse a bomb.

My wife never gives up. She is so insistent that she entered the wrong password over and over again until she managed to convince the computer that she's right.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes; They will say, Women don't have what it takes.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

The difficulty is not to find your purpose, it's to face it.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

We all have demons that were trying to fight; mine just happens to be you