Quotes About Challenge

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.

It's important to realize that on the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you're big too! What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive—at least in proportion to the person you've become. Your thinking, your skills, your relationships, your sense of what is possible and what it takes all grow on the journey to big. As you experience big, you become big.

When we connect big with bad, we trigger shrinking thinking.

When we fear big, we either consciously or subconsciously work against it.

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up. In fact, other areas of your life may experience chaos in direct proportion to the time you put in on your ONE Thing. It's important for you to accept this instead of fighting it.

What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive—at least in proportion to the person you've become. Your thinking, your skills, your relationships, your sense of what is possible and what it takes all grow on the journey to big.

Ask bigger questions. A good rule of thumb is to double down everywhere in your life. If your goal is ten, ask the question: "How can I reach 20?

Apenas aqueles que se arriscam a ir longe demais tem a chance de descobrir quão longe podem ir." T. S. Eliot

Highly successful people choose to live at the outer limits of achievement. They not only dream of but deeply crave what is beyond their natural grasp.

Biking is about rhythm and flow. It's the wind in you face and the challenge of hammering up along hill. It's the reward at the top and the thrill of a high-speed descent. Biking lets you come alive in both body and spirit. After awhile the bike disappears beneath you and you feel as if you're suspended in midair.

It is a sophisticated spiritual challenge to not compare your spouse's weakness with another spouse's strength.

The desire for ease, comfort, and stress-free living is an indirect desire to remain an "unseasoned," immature Christian. Struggle makes us stronger; it builds us up and deepens our faith.

A heavyweight boxing champion who dodges all serious contenders to consistently fight marshmallows is derided and ridiculed—and rightly so. Christians who dodge all serious struggle and consciously seek to put themselves in whatever situations and relationships are easiest are doing the same thing—they are coasting, and eventually that coasting will define them and—even worse—shape them.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course: the space between your ears. —BOBBY JONES

Under pressure people can perform fifteen percent better or fifteen percent worse.

In truth, life is based upon failures. If you don't fail, you're probably not challenging yourself enough.

The paradox is that sometimes you have to get worse before you get better.

Most of the work I do is as a "stretch" and not a "shrink." I help athletes expand their comfort zone and encourage them to take risks.

Fear keeps people from taking risks. And sometimes the greatest risk is not to take a risk.

I help athletes expand their comfort zone and encourage them to take risks.

Adversity Quotient author Paul Stoltz compares success with a mountain. Only climbers get to the top. The campers, those who get part of the way up and decide to stay where they are, will never feel as alive or as proud as the climbers. As the philosopher said, it takes courage to grow up and to achieve your full potential.

Pete Rose warned, "When you mess with my pride you're going to get into trouble." Michael Jordan is another prideful man. When challenged on the basketball court he exhibited what golfer Sam Snead called a "cool mad." In the playoffs, Jordan was always the smiling assassin.

The task is the same. So what is the difference? For many, it's a four-letter word. Fear.

Memory, perception, coordination, strength: guitar is just plain hard.