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“Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.”

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German poet known for his profound poetry and epistolary works. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry style is unique, often exploring themes such as loneliness, love, and religious faith. more

“My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.”

“In love, each man is his own personal challenge.”

Men Challenges

Book:Love

Source: Love

“'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo'd along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.”

Giving Firsts Humans Lasts Faces Challenges Race Heard Kings Hunger Dare Hungry Burning Human Race Pairs Shore Lions Boots Bores Echoes Face To Face Hungry Lion

Author:William Barnes Rhodes

“An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.”

Way Facts Feelings Challenges Events Gratitude Happenings Negative Obvious Overlooked Exterior Negative Feelings

Author:Vernon Howard

“In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the opponent is ready to challenge: When fewer in number, be ready to evade them; When unequal to the match, be ready to avoid them. Even when the smaller opponents have a strong position, the larger opponent will capture them.”

Ifs Two Strong Challenges Numbers Five Greater Position Ready Ten Strategy Opponents Surround Capture Fewer Executing

Author:Sun Tzu

“Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.”

Certain Winning Challenges Losing Seeking Triumph Strategist

Author:Sun Tzu

“Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.”

Wells Kind Play Feelings Bigs Able Challenges Produce Tennis Big Challenges

Author:Steffi Graf

“Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.”

Ifs Five Citizens Percent Twenties Citizenship Criteria Israeli Twenty Five

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency of the preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and forward so an indefinite future, have lifted the hearts of millions of men and will continue to do. . . . These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more explosive than the atom, a continual challenge to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world.”

“Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.”

Knows Challenges Lows Dirty Irresistible Colonels

Author:Rex Harrison

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