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Quotes About Challenge

If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.
~ David Jeremiah
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
~ Eli Broad
Walk on air against your better judgement.
~ Seamus Heaney
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
~ Gautama Buddha
It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.
~ Douglas Mawson
Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
~ Victor Hugo
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
~ Aubrey de Grey
The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
~ Confucius
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.
~ Mark Donaldson
Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.
~ Gary Zukav
a problem well put is half solved.
~ John Dewey
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
~ Will Rogers
I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.
~ Edward Dunlop
The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that: "All things work together for good to them that love God."
~ Wilferd Peterson
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
~ Heraclitus, Fragments
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
~ Victor Hugo
It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
~ Tony Kushner
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.
~ Michael Steinhardt
Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
~ Norman Cousins
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
~ John Churton Collins
One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.
~ Robert M. Gates