Quotes about Challenge

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Creative life should be more than preaching to the converted, more than going for a core audience of 100,000 people. It should be taking risks, challenging the readership and having enough faith in one's own talent and craft to take readers on that ride.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

I'd like to get around 7-7, be as tall as Manute Bol, and someday block his shot.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights

It is oftentimes a blessing to not know our limitations. It's the only way to accomplish the impossible.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?" I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.

Hammer away, ye hostile bands. Your hammers break; God's anvil stands.