Quotes about challenges

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.

— Douglas Adams

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

— William Blake

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

— Terry Bradshaw

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.

— Connie Chung

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

— John Dewey

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Alexander Douglas Home

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.

— John F. Kennedy

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.

— Pir Vilayat Khan

I love the challenge.

— Nancy Lopez

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.

— Nena O'Neil

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

— George S. Patton

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

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

— Linda Ronstadt

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

— Robert H. Schuller

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

— Robert W. Service

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

— Gail Sheehy

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

— Michael Sky

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

— Margaret Chase Smith

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!

— Picabo Street

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

— Yoshihisa Tabuchi

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

— Harry S Truman

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

— Travis White

Thinking negative is so easy! thinking and being positive is a challenge.

— BPBEE

The view from the summit is much more majestic, when its path has been littered by unsuccessful prior climbers.

— Arnie Sherr