Challenge Quotes - 6
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It's The Eye Of The Tiger It's the thrill of The Fight! Standing up to the challenge of your rival.
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Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.
helen garner— Page 57, describing Maxine.
My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.
garry kasparov— Guardian interview, Stephen Moss Monday March 14, 2005
The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.
jim stanford— Part 5, Chapter 25, Evaluating Capitalism, p. 314
I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?
al gore— As quoted in "Gore Sees No Reason to Run" by Patrick Healy in The New York Times (25 May 2007)
The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.
john f. kennedy— "Letter to the United States Army, April 11, 1962" Box 5, President's Outgoing Executive Correspondence, White House Central Chronological Files, Papers of John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
simon sinek— From his personal Twitter account (April 19, 2016)
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.
w. c. allee— Chapter VII: Some Human Implications
This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.
Maurice Duplessis— Response to the 1949 asbestos miner's strike on CBC radio.
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being,
john kenneth galbraith— Ch. 13 (The Culture of Contentment (1992))
Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.
hilda solis— Immigrant's daughter Solis to lead Labor Dept (December 19, 2008)
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die. This is not offered in criticism but only as observation. And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.
john steinbeck— Pt. 2 (Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962))
Why, then, have we been bamboozled into accepting the usual tale without questioning? I suspect two primary reasons: we love a sensible and satisfying story, and we are disinclined to challenge apparent authority (like textbooks!). But do remember that most satisfying tales are false.
stephen jay gould— "The Tallest Tale", p. 318
September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
— Tony Blair, as quoted in "Attacks remembered: In quotes" at BBC News (11 September 2002)
Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.
gore vidal— "The State of the Union" (1978)
No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
Donald Trump— American businessman, television personality, and 45th president of the United States
