Quotes About Challenge

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.

Some heavy shit is coming down, brothers, and we're going to go through it.

Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful; honor and recognition in case of success.

Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

The danger is greatest when the finish line is in sight. At this point, Resistance knows we're about to beat it. It hits the panic button. It marshals one last assault and slams us with everything it's got.

Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign.

What factors make you decide to take a particular role? The actor always answers: Because I'm afraid of it.

The hill is a sonofabitch but what can you do? Set one foot in front of another and keep climbing.

The enemy is a very good teacher. — the Dalai Lama

You imagined we had entered unknown country, my friend, when we voyaged across the sea to Amazonia. Yet that was nothing beside the frontier I cross each evening with this woman who is my equal. Each dawn new continents are sighted; each night one alights on shores where no man's sole has trod." He

Faced with our imminent extinction, Tom Laughlin believes, all assumptions are called into question.

Our very existence makes them abominate us, for it calls their own wives and daughters to aspire to freedom.

Resistance is the enemy within.

Crazy,' says Paddy Mayne, 'is our business.

If you take Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get. Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Resistance plays for keeps. It plays to kill. Resistance is fueled by fear. It has no power on its own. Every ounce of juice it possesses comes from us. Master the fear and we conquer resistance.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.

The opposite of fear is love—love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.

Xerxes does not want your lives, sir," Tommie called. "Only your arms." Leonidas laughed. "Tell him to come and get them.

When we conceive an enterprise and commit to it in the face of our fears, something wonderful happens.

The more important an activity is to your soul's evolution, the more you will feel resistance to it.

We're facing dragons too. Fire-breathing griffins of the soul, whom we must outfight and outwit to reach the treasure of our self-in-potential and to release the maiden who is God's plan and destiny for ourselves and the answer to why we were put on this planet.

So if you're paralyzed with fear, it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.