Quotes about Challenge

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

You can't lead without taking risk. You won't take risk without courage. Courage is essential to leadership.

Wherever there is fear, there is opportunity. Wherever there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.