Quotes About Challenge

Life presents itself first and foremost as a task. We take no pleasure in it except when we are striving after something.

It was far from good enough for de Valera, Brugha and Stack.

the phase of daring escapades, of raids and rallies, gave way to the inevitable grimmer phase when the implications of the war began to strike home to everybody.

Summoning up the images in my imagination was easy. Getting them out of my head and onto the canvas was harder. The hardest thing. Sometimes, I thought, the impossible thing. Often, I thought, the only worthwhile thing.

Can we do better?

Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don't want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear.

Get comfortable being uncomfortable, or find another place to fail.

Every accomplishment is just a stepping-stone to the next challenge; as soon as they've hit their target, they're already stalking their next conquest.

Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don't want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise, the next day you're going to have two things you don't want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can't even get back to the first thing. And then all you can do is beat yourself up for the mess you've created,

Cleaners never feel external pressure; they only believe what's inside them. You can criticize, analyze, demonize a Cleaner, but he's still only going to feel pressure from within. He knows what he's doing right, and what he's doing wrong. He does not care what you think. He steps out of his comfort zone and challenges himself to get to the next level.

The greatest battles you will ever fight are with yourself, and you must always be your toughest opponent. Always demand more of yourself than others demand of you.

Be open to the advice that goes against what you want .

Everything you do in the gym becomes easier when you stop expecting it to be easy.

Winning is a test with no correct answers .

The satisfaction doesn't come from the risk, it comes from mastering it. I own this.

everything is impossible until someone does it.

Most people have too many options, and they rarely choose the tougher one.

Bottom line if you want success of any kind: you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable.

I knew all these things were true. Wild Bill may have called me into coming to the place where I would experience this adventure, but Bill had crashed out, and I had pulled myself through and had come away with a sense of myself I didn't have before.

during tough times, "Leaders stretch to the challenge, while followers shrink from the challenge.

The real world is coming, chugging straight at me like a bulldozer into the rain forest.

It's too big to change. It's too heavy and all sharp-cornered and shit.

We had to rescue Tavi – or what was left of him – but the question was how? We couldn't exactly walk up to Titanus, give him a stern look, and say, "Bad dinosaur! You spit that out now!

But there's a lot to be said for a good war, you know. Like a forest fire, it can be a cleansing force, burning away old, tired wood and making room for invigorating new growth." She flashed a smile. "Besides, it's fun!