Quotes About Challenges

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Don't send a man to the grocery store.

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

Whatever come we have to meet it.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

I always tell my mom I don't have regular problems. I have problems, like, what type of girl is going to say they're pregnant by me today? Those are the types of issues I have.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.