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Quotes About Challenge

Passion is what drives us crazy, what makes us do extraordinary things, to discover, to challenge ourselves. Passion is and should always be the heart of courage.
~ Unknown
You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.
~ Rita Dove
As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.
~ Anne Bonny
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
~ Gail Sheehy
The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
~ Joseph Farrell
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
~ Anne Bronte
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
~ Aleister Crowley
Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.
~ Rudy Giuliani
Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~ David Lloyd George
It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
~ Winston Churchill
You never know where your next scare is coming from. You've just gotta find the courage to face it.
~ Shaggy
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
~ Voltaire
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
~ Rosalind Russell
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
~ Seneca
Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.
~ David Lloyd George
Courage is adversity's lamp.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Change of any sort requires courage.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher