Quotes About Challenge

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

I do look forward to doing things in the future that I havent done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?