Challenge

Challenge is a common English word that is used generically for many different named competitions and for things that are inbued with a sense of difficulty and victory.

Quotes

• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
  • T.S. Eliot, Preface to Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus (1931), p. ix.

• Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
  • Dag Hammarskjold, Markings (1964).

• The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
  • Bertrand Russell, as quoted in Crainer's The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations (1997), p. 258.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 92.

• If not, resolve, before we go,
  That you and I must pull a crow.
  Y' 'ad best (quoth Ralpho), as the Ancients
  Say wisely, have a care o' the main chance.
  • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto II, line 499.

• I never in my life
  Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly,
  Unless a brother should a brother dare
  To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act V, scene 2, line 52.

• There I throw my gage,
  To prove it on thee to the extremest point
  Of mortal breathing.
  • William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act IV, scene 1, line 46.

• But thou liest in thy throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee for.
  • William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 4, line 172.

• An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld have challenged him.
  • William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 4, line 311.

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• One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
  • John Wanamaker

• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
  • Robert F. Kennedy

• Who wills, can. Who tries, does. Who loves, lives.
  • Anne McCaffrey

• There are those that stare up at the stars and those that build rocketships
  • Lee O'Shea