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Quotes About Challenge

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.
~ Milton Friedman
They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
~ Casey Stengel
I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.
~ Erin Brockovich
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
~ Carl Andre
If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.
~ Shahid Afridi
People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
~ Donald Miller
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
~ Johnny Depp
I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.
~ Mary Faustina Kowalska
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
~ Robert Zend
For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.
~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder
When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
~ Martin Amis
The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.
~ Meryl Streep
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
~ Shaun White
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
~ Salman Rushdie
A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.
~ Miuccia Prada
I did the 23 hour nose-route to the top of El Capitan in 6 hours and 18 minutes! I can make this work.
~ Billy Bishop
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.
~ Gertrude B. Elion
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
~ Steven Pressfield
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
~ Matthew Henson
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
~ William Gibson
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.
~ Cesar Chavez