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Quotes About Challenge

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The first blow is half the battle.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
We have met the enemy, and they are ours.
~ Oliver Hazard Perry
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
~ Unknown
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
~ Unknown
She decided he might be an easy acquaintance, but would not be easy to know.
~ Olivia Manning
Very often, the things that you're most afraid of, are the things that you really just need to go for it.
~ Olivia Newton-John
When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour ' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
~ Olivia Thirlby
I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
~ Olivier Martinez
Let's not kid ourselves, pain always exists, and there's no shilly-shallying that it is probably the essential part of life.…
~ Unknown
La patience est une guerre qui se livre souvent avant la vraie bataille.
~ Unknown
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
~ Omar Epps
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Encourage creative disruption: Random hostilities are not what the organization needs, but if nobody's pissed off, maybe you're not pushing hard enough. "Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
~ Unknown
I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
~ Oren Peli
The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition.
~ Ori Hofmekler
Jamás debes evitar el riesgo, aunque el miedo te frene.
~ Oriana Fallaci
What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
~ Oriana Fallaci
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~ Orison Swett Marden