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Quotes About Challenge

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
~ Paul Newman
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Success is not easy. But it is worth the price.
~ William Wrigley, Jr.
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
~ Walter Alston
You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.
~ George Lucas
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
~ Ann Landers
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
~ Tom Kite
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
~ John P. Kotter
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
~ Alan Shearer
There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.
~ Tony Dungy
There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that.
~ Angela Merkel
Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
~ Napoleon Hill
I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.
~ John C. Reilly
The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
~ John Wooden
...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
~ Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.
~ Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
~ Ian Fleming, Moonraker
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
~ Doris Lessing
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
~ Walt Whitman
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport
~ Ian Botham
I had flops, I had success.
~ Agnes Varda
The first step toward success will be the biggest one.
~ Denis Waitley