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Challenge Quotes


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


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


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



"The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable."


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


"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."



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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


"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!"


"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."


"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!"



"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?"



"You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."


"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."



"Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me."


"The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me."


"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."
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