Quotes About Challenges

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.

I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.