Quotes About Challenge

I went out with some FBI agents and knocked the ball into all eighteen holes. It wasn't hard but once you've done it, I don't know why you'd want to do it again.

How are you going to live your purpose if you don't face your fears? How are you going to get better if you don't get better?

you are either climbing or sliding or growing and dying.

If we can fight the tendency to let it become so familiar that we don't notice it, we can be challenged every week to remember that God doesn't want our bloody victories and that sacrifice doesn't really overcome our rivalries. At least for Christians, that crucifix should be the emblem of the end of violence.

A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll... it'll point you true north from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps, deserts and chasms that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp, what's the use of knowing true north?

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

I never imagined losing my mind was going to be such hard work.

Gadzooks! We've jumped out of the frying pan and into another frying pan!

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.

Boredom is the coward's reaction to staring at a wall.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too simple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It takes courage to fight the beast.

Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is left for me?

The only thing this guy responded to was a firm line drawn in the sand. I just looked at him and said, "Cross this and we'll be having radio person medium rare for dinner.

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

Het is lastig om jezelf te blijven als de dingen om je heen constant van vorm veranderen.

I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.

Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself. "I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.

It's a pity that exciting things always stop happening when you're not afraid of them anymore and would like to have a little fun.

Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.