Quotes About Challenge

Life is not a success only journey.

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

The more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

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.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

Impossible is just an opinion.

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

Doing the difficult things that you've never done awakens the talents you never knew you had.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.