Quotes About Challenge

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.

Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.

Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.

What a terrible thing life can be.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'