Quotes About Challenge

Look, when you come up short against the edge like that, when you discover the earth really is round, when you find out you've killed your father and married your mother after all, or when you look at the horizon and see something, like that, rising — man, you have to have some sort of human reaction: laugh, cry, sing, something! You can't just lie down and take a nap.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.

T]hose who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

This might have been the only thing that could have awakened you. Your whole life has been a growing from the outside, mastering the challenges that others have set for you. Now, finally, you might just be growing from inside yourself.

To look forward to whatever flowed through the doors. To save a life? Two lives? I felt proud. The burden of treating the intractable, untreatable, unplaceable, unwanted, had been replaced by the fantasy of being a real doctor, dealing with real disease.

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Let's pull the strings, one by one, place our bets and take these chances. One life to live, make it interesting.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Creating your life's work does not come from choosing safety and comfort over growth.

Your greatest challenge is to not be distracted by that which happens in front of you, or is pulling on you or calling to you, but instead to find your center and magnetize to yourself all those things that are in alignment with your inner being

Entrepreneurship is a real test of once conviction

Most entrepreneurs think that insufficient capital goes against them. You die due to indigestion, not due to hunger. Necessity is the mother of invention.

I had failed to follow the fundamental school rule that you ought to turn up every day. The truth is I found it boring and I don't do well with that. I have learned to deal with hurt, embarrassment, pain of many sorts, but boredom in this world seems unforgivable.

Did you know that 75 per cent of people who read the sentence, 'It is not possible to lick your own elbow', will try? The other 25 per cent work for the parcel delivery service and would like you to try for them.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

Now I am shut up with his mother on Bramble farm and she is no better for conversation than prune whip

here. "I thought it was too dangerous

She sighed. "Have I ever told you that you're impossible?" His smile was wonderfully wicked. "Have I ever told you that there is no such thing as impossible?

I ride hard to fetch the roo.

Every opportunity you need in life is behind a door. How many doors are you willing to knock down?

This year I challenge myself to break barriers, grow doubly and to pat myself on the back.