Quotes About Challenge

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

If I can have a career based on playing roles that are a challenge and tell an important story, and for no alternative reason, then I have succeeded.

Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Huge success is very hard to come by.

I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a lot.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.