Quotes About Challenge

As an actor, you always want to try something you haven't done before. For me, the uncomfortable zone is the one to enter.

I went into a club who were sitting dead last in League Two, then I got them out of the relegation zone within 10 games, only to then get the sack... I don't get it.

I fell into a safety zone where I didn't want to risk losing my fighting life with the UFC, so I wanted to go the safe route instead of taking risk and being the fighter I've always been.

During my third season of 'Zoo,' I was picked up by a car to go to work. We had this huge scene to shoot that day, but the traffic was just gridlock. My transportation guy got a call saying, 'Where are you? We need to start shooting.' So I got out of the car and just took off running by all of these cars that weren't moving an inch.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it.

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

James Drummond Burns

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.