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Challenge Quotes


"It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won."


"My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality."


"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."


"You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity."


"To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat."


"Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow."


"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."


"Impossible things are really rough to do, you know."


"Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, "Then it was a good service?Lincoln responded, "No. The aide protested,"But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant."Yes, replied Lincoln, "but he didn't challenge us to do any great thing."


"To find out how much we can do or how far we can go, we have to challenge ourselves constantly."


"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."


"Trials and tribulations are nothing but opportunities to test the true potential of your mind."


"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."


"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."


"Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!"


"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."


"Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?"



"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"



"Everything new requires determination and courage from a person."


"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."


"The only period where there is lesser competition for opportunities are during times of difficulties."


"It was... the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember."


"We are the mountains we must cross."


"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."


"Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it."


"The easy path will seldom lead where you need to go."


"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."


"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."


"If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled."


"No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around."
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