Challenge Quotes

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’
Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

The roughest roads often lead to the top.

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?"
"Yeah," I (Percy) said.
"Why is there lava pouring down it?"
"Little extra challenge..." - Percy

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could breathe. "Some of us are starting to wonder."
"I come from civilization," Lucius retorted. "You wouldn't be familiar with the territory. Now pick up the books.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world – wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself.

Never run from the enemy, tackle them

Why did I sign up for this?'
'Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

Rejection is a challenge.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

Do I hear a challenge? she whispers, Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.

The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.

Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of comfort zone your biggest challenge.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Stop complaining and do something... Shut up! Rise up! Grow up! And show up! See you at the top!

Трябва да се научиш да се браниш от стръмното! Гледаш: скала, препречена пред тебе, и спираш. А не знаеш, че скалата е също път. И то най-прекият и най-щедрият - ще те възнагради за усилието с най-красивата гледка, невидена от никого!

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.

Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.

Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction.

If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

I've figured out why they call it a trial.  Because you
try all
you can to pull through it. 

One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.

As it so happens, I like your mouth."
"It doesn't -- "
"Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.