Quotes About Challenge

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?

Ever hear the saying that you need to be scared to be brave?

But more often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.

Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free. —

How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.

Life is hard, so what? It's hard for everyone, isn't it? Anyone who says it's easy is a liar.

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear,' Constance went on, 'but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear. But if there is no fear, how is there a challenge? Often that is when I've done my best work, because I have embraced the fear and challenged myself.

I need a goal. I need an objective. I need a challenge. I need a purpose. I need to contribute. I need to do something.

I know it's scary, changes can be scary.

Rosie: I know, I'm working on it but I can't quit until I get another job and that's proving to be rather difficult. Apparently no one really cares about whether or not you work as a secretary in a paper-clip factory. Ruby: Hmm… how odd… And it sounds so glamorous, you would think… Honestly, some people… Ahern, Cecelia (2005-02-01). Love, Rosie (p. 87). Hachette Books. Kindle Edition.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. RAINER MARIA RILKE

They become angry and ugly and they fight anything that's a threat to them. We have to learn how to fight back without hurting them too much.

An artist needs a broken world in order to have pieces to shape into art. . . . Comfort is death to art.

the truth is that over the years the calibrations have grown so fine that new equipment was necessarily developed, given how decimal places kept being added, the measuring process itself evolving into a kind of test of our mettle, to see how far we could go in realizing an ultimate standard.

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

Bring it on, fur-ass!

Don't go looking for trouble; it's already looking for you.

It was hard to have a good crisis when real life kept asking to be lived.

Just what I needed, another psycho bitch after me. Hadn't the Weres pretty much cornered that market?

suck failure, fur face!

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge right down the beaten path.

You have to live well to defeat whoever's doing this to you," I said. "You can't let them win.