Quotes About Challenges

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Look what I'm dealing with, man, I'm dealing with fools and trolls.