Quotes About Challenge

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.

We're also learning that the most dangerous time often comes after a victory.

Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.

would I have known that mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not? And would I have dared to challenge rules later in life if my father had obeyed them?

Don't worry, honey," she said to me comfortingly, "it's important for someone who could play the game—and win—to say: 'The game isn't worth shit.'

Sometimes life is like trying to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling on the backs on five thousand turtles.

But controversy is a teacher.

If hard things ultimately have a purpose, then they aren't so hard anymore.

In retrospect, the second cause for delay makes less feminist sense: the long popularity of assertiveness training. Though most women needed to be more assertive (or even more aggressive, though that word was considered too controversial), many assertiveness courses taught women how to play the existing game, not how to change the rules.

If hard things ultimately have a purpose, then they aren't so hard anymore.

It was a game, and life was the playing field.

Take public speaking: I spent all of my twenties and early thirties avoiding it. When I once asked a speech teacher about my aversion, she explained that dancers and writers were especially difficult to teach to speak in public, since both had chosen a profession in which they didn't have to talk—and I had been both.

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

Flo kept reminding me that they gave us an opportunity to teach, though each one was also punishing to the soul.

Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.

But controversy is a teacher. The

Rauve, you son of a..."  Pagan growled in disapproval, his words punctuated by hacks of his sword. "Does...no one...heed my...commands?"  His

Before, she'd envisioned their marriage as a battle waged between the two of them, where one triumphed and one surrendered, a contest for control and power. But marriage, she now knew, was not war at all.  Marriage was man and wife, side by side as they were now, sharing life's adventures and battling its challenges...together.  It was an alliance forged of the finest steel, tempered in the fires of adversity, and thus blessed by unrivaled strength.

God challenged me to match my outsides with my insides. I had to reevaluate my priorities and my expectations for myself. It was a time of brutal honesty, loneliness, and shattered pride. But it was drenched in a message of hope and redemption.

Starting a task or project can be a challenge for a procrastinator. But the only way we strengthen our starting muscles is to start. Then do it again and again.

Change your fear of challenges to love for triumph over them. So that when you encounter them you will smile, not frown.

Don't get to your worst yet, this is not the worst yet. Even if it were, it would require your best.