Quotes About Challenges

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.