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Quotes About Challenge

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
~ Ellen Hopkins
For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.
~ Eric Ludy
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
~ Erica Jong
Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.
~ Gary Cole
Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.
~ Georges St-Pierre
The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?
~ Hermann Hesse
Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.
~ Indira Gandhi
Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?
~ J. K. Rowling
Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.
~ John Barth
Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.
~ William James
As you speed along the highway of life ... you might pause and consider. When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong lane.
~ Joseph Finder
And I'm drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I'm sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.
~ Julian Fellowes
The only journeys worth taking in life are those that test us to the very core
~ Justin Somper
The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.
~ Lance Armstrong
The happy problem of our time - longer life.
~ Lillian Hellman
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
~ Lyman Abbott
I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. This has been normal for me.
~ Martina Navratilova
I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.
~ Mary Frann
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
~ Michael Caine
I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.
~ Michael Spinks
There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life.
~ Mike Holloway