Challenge Quotes

I couldn't tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you've got it mastered it lets you know you haven't. I'm just crazy enough to do it.

In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls

Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.

Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

The path of least resistance will never make you proud.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble.

Calm seas never made a good sailor

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

Football is always a challenge between us to play in the games, to face different challenges as well.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

You remember the [remarks] you made in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.

In life we have to overcome things.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.

Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Fear is a great instructor.

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.

Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.

The tree the tempest with a crash of woodThrows down in front of us is not to barOur passage to our journey's end for good,But just to ask us who we think we are.

Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

I love trying to beat what I've done so far.

Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.