Challenges Quotes

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Life is a challenge, and I'm staying in the game to win.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

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.

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Until the day we die our brain remains capable of change, according to the challenges that we set for it.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

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

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.

Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.

As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.

A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!

You don't have wisdom for tomorrow's problems. But you will tomorrow. You don't have resources for tomorrow's needs. But you will tomorrow. You don't have courage for tomorrow's challenges. But you will when tomorrow comes.

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Always face your challenges head on and make them your strengths.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

Everything in my life has been challenging but rewarding.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead.

You know,” Cole said. “My mom once told me a boy would know he’d become a man when he stopped putting himself first. She said a girl would come along and I wouldn’t be able to get her out of my mind. She said this girl would frustrate me, confuse me, and challenge me, but she would also make me do whatever was necessary to be a better man–the man she needed. With you, I want to be better. I want to be what you need. Tell me what you need.

Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty. Because there is no security, there is adventure. Because the future is unknown, nobody knows what is going to happen the next moment. That's why there is challenge, growth, adventure. If you miss adventure, you miss all. If your life is not that of an adventure, of a search into the unknown, then you are living in vain.

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

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

One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

The stairs aren't challenging enough anymore?" he asked. Antonio laughed. "Challenge has nothing to do with it, Jer. I'd say it's the big bad wolf huffing and puffing at her door up there.

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

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

When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.