Quotes About Challenge

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.

Understand that a problem is only a problem if you choose to view it as a problem (vs. an opportunity).

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

Without Struggle There Is No Success

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

Great success is a great temptation.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.