Challenge Sayings & Quotes
These challenge sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. - Calvin Coolidge
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul. - Henry Fielding
The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects. [The Social Life of Insects] - Warder Clyde Allee
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. - Henry Graham Greene
We must accept life for what it actually is, a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. - Robert Louis Stevenson
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. - Charles Beard
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart
Journalism an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. - Rebecca West
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders. - Herbert Clark Hoover
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. - Enoch Arnold Bennett
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. - James Baldwin
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow