Quotes about Challenge

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves.

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it… Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.