Quotes about Challenges

“I love the challenge.”

“We only think when we are confronted with problems.”

“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”

“You have to erect a fence and say, ''Okay, scale this.''”

“Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.”

“Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”

“Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.”

“When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.”

“When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.”

“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”

“It's always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.”

“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”

“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”

“There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.”

“I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.”

“The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.”

“One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.”

“When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, ''I'm going to prove you wrong!''”

“The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.”

“If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.”

“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”