Challenge Quotes

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

It's not going to be easy, it's going to be worth it.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing."

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Bring on all the pretenders!

The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

Extremity is the trier of spirits.

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Just know that if you want to be a boxer you're going to get your face beaten constantly but then you may end up being a Mayweather or an Ali at the end of the day.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

The strenuous life tastes better

Marketing just got hard.

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.