Quotes About Challenge

For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength.

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.

I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.

The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

He who does not walk against the arrows cannot talk about the strength of his shield!

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.

You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with