Quotes About Challenges

Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.

Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same.

There are always fuckups, and there is always a goat. Sometimes the goat is you.

It was humanly impossible to extend to seven billion people the full sympathy that each of them deserved.

Meetings had never been her strong suit. She felt like she was playing an away game whenever she sat down in a conference room. Her awareness of this got in the way and turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It irritates the hell out of me to be in a situation where I'm forced to do exactly what's expected.

Ohne Vergütungen, die weit über das eigentlich Angemessene hinausgehen, wäre der Beruf des Politikers viel zu unerfreulich.