Quotes About Challenge

Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

May you always do what you are afraid to do.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do

We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain

Do the things you fear to do and death of fear will be certain.

There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive, — a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it, but must either bend to it or die of it.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life

The seeds of the ability to be able to confront, and even disagree with, an existing institution and know and trust that inside place that says it's all right. It's something I could never have done without anxiety until that moment—until that day.

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) has been widely credited with saying, "Jesus promised His disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Get to the other side" is still the basic paradigm. "Visit all the map" is handled by a "secrets"* system. Time limits add another dimension of challenge.

Boredom is the opposite of learning. When a game stops teaching us, we feel bored.

Well, I could take on the Sisyphean task of trying to match these folks in every new game as it comes out, but frankly, repeated failure is a predictable cycle, and rather boring. I have better things to do with my time.

We think that behind that steel door of resistance there's a dragon breathing fire; if we open the door we think we'll be devoured. So often, we open the door, and as someone once said 'we don't find a fire breathing dragon, we find a gerbil in drag.

This is why Jesus challenged the notion that more evidence would have generated more faith. George Macdonald said years ago that to give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation.

May I suggest that the challenge of Jesus' earthly ministry was to enable us to see the message so that the picture could be understood.

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.