Quotes About Challenge

Difficult situations breed astonishing results.

An dem Ort, an dem wir recht haben, werden niemals Blumen wachsen im Frühjahr. Der Ort, an dem wir recht haben, ist zertrampelt und hart wie ein Hof.

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.

We can only grow if we dare to do what we not dare to do

Whatever happens next, I'm sure it's going to be a great adventure.

UGH. Boys. They're like French class--no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

You back up princess. This isn't a job for you. It is if you keep screwing up! I pull the sword out of his hand.

You never know what you'll find out about yourself when you stretch outside your comfort zone.

As my eldest could tell you, tussling with the Dwarf Police Squad is no picnic.

G. K. Chesterton wrote: "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."2 Change means you're alive, my friend.

It is one thing to "feel nice feelings" toward the minority voice; it is something else entirely to challenge existing power structures to include the whole variety of God's people.

It is fashionable to be an Internet Advocate where Woke Words generate a lot of buzz without the grind of any actual work. To be fair, words are quite powerful when challenging systems of injustice—we need them and they matter—but we also have to put our boots on the ground.

I bet our kiddos are sturdier than we think. Maybe they don't need every gadget and advantage. Maybe kids grow like all humans do: through struggle, failure, and perseverance. They might have a gear we didn't know about and don't need to be coddled like fragile hothouse plants that can't adapt to new environments. I bet the kids will surprise us.

It can be difficult to envision a new start but impossible to deny one.

The best people I know are constantly learning, putting themselves humbly under the leadership of others who've gone before them. This is no indicator of weakness but rather healthy ambition. That woman is unafraid of a challenge and cares enough about her own development to ask for help and secure the outcome she wants. Learners become our most effective leaders.

I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.

Kiss the fattest part of my ass

I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.

If you run from your fears, they will follow you. If you run straight at your fears, they will get the hell out of your way. Fears hate it when you do that.

Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone.

The next time a challenging situation presents itself, take a pause and make the conscious choice to meet it with curiosity or humor or the knowledge that this too shall pass.

lots of people wish for change, really, really want it, are willing to invest the time and money into it, but are ultimately not willing to get uncomfortable enough to actually make anything happen.

We've been raised to believe that you have to work hard to make money, and certainly there are times when this is true, but the real secret is you have to take huge, uncomfy risks. You have to do stuff you've never done before, to make yourself visible, to acknowledge your own