Quotes About Challenge

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I love it when people say that something can't be done. That's when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.

Forget plan B. To test yourself and grow, you have to operate without a safety net.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.

If a guy looked at me in a weird way or challenged me for whatever reason, I'd be in his face. I'd give him the shock treatment: I'd rip off my shirt to reveal my tank top underneath and then I'd punch him out. Or sometimes when he saw me he'd just say, "Oh, what the hell. Why don't we just get a beer?

Though you may not realize it now, you'll eventually recognize it when you take the same disciplined approach in tackling a particular challenge.

Fear is a great motivator.

Seen from this perspective, our unstable environment is the essential wellspring of human evolution and change, and the more serious our environmental problems become, the more creatively we are responding to the challenge.

To grab a hold of the good life, then you must be prepared for the struggles that lay ahead--for turmoil and the problems, for the pain that might cut through your heart and soul and perhaps even your body like a knife.

Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to stuggle for life!

Disaster is my muse.

DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS A MIDGET MUST GO!

No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to struggle for life!

Uneven! Easy to say! As if you could always go straight to the point!

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

It means a big life transition, and as we all know, transitions can be hard. So that's where we need to turn our attention next: making the jump.

Seeing it as tragedy can be easier than seeing it as opportunity.

Indeed, your biggest life transition doesn't have to be a crisis or a period of loss, but rather can be an exciting adventure full of opportunities you never knew existed.