Quotes About Challenge

The sickness of humanity is only added to, when people begin things that others are trying to stop

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

They found themselves up against the new satraps sent to the region by the victorious Artaxerxes.

The situation facing Byzantium in the mid-1090s was not so much desperate as catastrophic.

on all sides during the 1060s:

Just take a risk. Go for it. I think if you crash and burn trying, it's still going to be better than if you never tried at all.

The toughest club I worked was owned by a guy named Nunzio. Man, he was tough. One day he said to me, "Kid, you wanna go hunting?" I said, "Okay, I'm game." And he shot me.

Since spirituality must be the noblest undertaking of all, we force it to be the most difficult challenge imaginable, when actually it is extraordinarily simple.

Set a plank between those two towers, of a size such as is needed for us to walk on it: there is no philosophical wisdom of such firmness as to give us the courage to walk on it as we would do if it was on the ground.

risks must be taken . . . the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing . . . he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. . . . / only a person who risks is free." Taking

Management wizard Jim Collins, best-selling author of Good to Great and Built to Last, argues that what must glaringly separate great companies from mediocre ones is the latter's tendency "to explain away the brutal facts rather than to confront the brutal facts head-on.

I'm going to work at a place I love, in an industry I love being involved in because of the challenge and excitement. Live it, breathe it, understand it, research it, study it. Learn every day.

If you are afraid to take risks and continue to push yourself forward, then there will be some obstacles you will never overcome.

There is no 'easy button' when it comes to beating the competition. Success is simply about working hard and delivering results and staying uncomfortable.

Fear keeps people from the risk associated with doing their best.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

The challenge is not to eliminate conflict but to transform it. It is to change the way we deal with our differences

If Fred tells you a chicken can pull a freight train, your job is to hook 'em up.

It's extremely difficult—and socially risky—to question an established model that many people believe and to start building a new model from scratch.

Fundamentally, the conventional thinker prefers to accept the world as it is. The integrative thinker welcomes the challenge of shaping the world for the better.

It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.