Top 100 Be Challenged Quotes
#1. For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.
Wangari Maathai
#2. A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.
Bell Hooks
#3. I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.
Diane Paulus
#4. I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
Karl Pilkington
#5. I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that.
Melissa McCarthy
#6. I always love to do something different and new and be challenged by different characters.
Emilie De Ravin
#7. I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
J. R. Martinez
#8. If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.
Tom Vilsack
#9. If you really "hygger", you do not perform in any way. You will not be challenged, and you do not show up as "another", than you are. It is easiest to socialize with people who know one from several sides, and appreciate them.
Iben Dissing Sandahl
#10. He can deal with not being able to control you as long as you let the world believe he does. He's king here, honey. Kings can't be challenged publicly.
Karen Marie Moning
#11. 'Star Trek Into Darkness' isn't that 'Star Trek' is going to be no fun, and dark. It's that the fun's going to be challenged by some serious issues.
Roberto Orci
#12. You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
Kirstie Alley
#13. I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.
Jaime Camil
#14. One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While
Mortimer J. Adler
#15. When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustice others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection.
Peter Hans Kolvenbach
#16. Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.
Helen Fisher
#17. Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.
Jeff Garlin
#18. I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.
Joshua Bell
#19. I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I've never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. It's challenging, and I like to be challenged.
Kelly Wearstler
#20. But a lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.
Guy Debord
#21. To change, you need to accept your past and deny to be challenged and overcome by your future.
Auliq Ice
#22. Every concerned citizen and policy maker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world's destitute masses will love it. And everyone will be challenged by it to reexamine their beliefs and the environmental establishment's claims.
Niger Innis
#23. It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.
Nina Dobrev
#24. The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.
Amanda Marcotte
#25. I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.
Phil Keoghan
#26. We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.
John Wooden
#27. I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
Earl Butz
#28. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.
Cliff Martinez
#29. People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think.
Harvey Weinstein
#30. Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.
Douglas Feith
#31. Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
Uday Kotak
#32. I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.
Tricia Helfer
#33. We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.
Frank Ocean
#34. To storm, a mind, it must be balanced,
by what can't be it must be challenged...
Will Advise
#35. I think that there's too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don't win in life and you don't win in athletics with softness or selfishness.
Buzz Williams
#36. Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
Nick Nolte
#37. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#38. The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
Gary Hamel
#39. Children want the same things we want.
To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
Dr. Seuss
#40. It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through these times, you have to be careful not to lose yourself in the process.
Meghan Wier
#41. Always be challenged to build your life intentionally for possessions.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.
Jann Wenner
#43. Young women are now looking at me for cues. That's definitely been a responsibility. But I feel like I was ready to take on something like this because I wanted to be challenged and I wanted to be afraid, and that's definitely what it's done for me.
Tatiana Maslany
#44. I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.
Thandie Newton
#45. God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.
Rachel Held Evans
#46. Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out ... what I can endure ... if I measure up. Running allows that.
George A. Sheehan
#47. Yes it is true that pro-capitalist forces have a lot of power. But so did slave-holding racists. We give ourselves hope when we conceptualize capitalism as a set of practices that can be challenged by fighting the piece of the puzzle we feel most compelled to fight.
Cynthia Kauffman
#48. I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.
Mark Ruffalo
#49. I want to be challenged. Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box.
Aneurin Barnard
#50. Ever, if I've learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it's that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.
Alyson Noel
#51. I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.
John Turturro
#52. Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.
Andrew Scott
#53. The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.
George Osborne
#54. To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
Alfred Molina
#55. People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Umberto Eco
#56. The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
Major Owens
#57. As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".
Chloe Grace Moretz
#58. To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
Maya Angelou
#59. I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.
Mark Waters
#60. With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
Augusten Burroughs
#61. Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.
Ron Ben-Israel
#62. Faith can't be forced, but unfaith can be challenged. That is how it has always been, from the very beginning, when people have borne witness to Jesus's resurrection.
N. T. Wright
#63. A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
Harry Browne
#64. The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.
Sam Zell
#65. I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.
Marion Cotillard
#66. God's people cannot be shamed into serving God; they need to be challenged.
Jack Hyles
#67. There are handful of moments in your life when you'll be challenged to choose between what you really want and what you believe is possible. These are the moments which will shape both your destiny AND who you will become.
Seth Czerepak
#68. It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
Laura Linney
#69. As a leader, there are professional skills and traits that are expected. It's your job to identify and exhibit them so you can be challenged and judged professionally as a leader - and not as a woman.
Liz Weber
#70. Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
Adrienne Rich
#71. I like to be challenged acting wise and I like to do things that I'm scared of.
Jason Segel
#72. People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.
Charlie Rose
#73. A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.
Ramsay Burt
#74. I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
Aisha Tyler
#75. I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no only give audiences an adventure but also give us as artists an opportunity for us to be challenged to embody amazing, multilayered characters.
Zoe Saldana
#77. Each of us has an innate, human desire to be challenged. We are driven by it, and we often learn from our experiences to set a target and hit it. Even if we don't reach our intended goal or destination, we gain strength in trying.
Michelle McCullough
#78. It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior.
Bryant McGill
#79. Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny) ... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.
Leonard Maltin
#80. she must provide a blanket of stability, which warms but does not suffocate, and she must tell her children the truth about the power of white power without suggesting that it cannot be challenged.
Maya Angelou
#81. It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.
Anita Roddick
#83. Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery.
Mary Balogh
#84. There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
Criss Jami
#85. It is a burden to be challenged to discover your promise land
Sunday Adelaja
#86. Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.
Antony Gormley
#87. Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
Karen Kain
#88. Coaching is about not being afraid to be challenged and, above all, trying to enjoy the experience.
Warren Gatland
#89. I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than ... just eating breakfast, you know?
Sofia Vassilieva
#90. Girl Scouts offered a wonderful group of girls where common concerns and interests could come together. We could learn, be challenged, and support one another. It was a very positive aspect of my life and played an important role in shaping who I am today.
Judy Woodruff
#91. I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.
Nicolas Cage
#92. Just as children have growing pains as their bodies work to attain maturity, as people's souls deepen and gain resonance it's the same thing. To be challenged, to stretch, to get stronger comes only with the hard stuff - loss, heartache, disappointment.
J.R. Ward
#93. The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.
Catherine Asaro
#94. I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.
Michael J. Fox
#95. No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.
Matthieu Ricard
#96. I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
Imani Hakim
#97. Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.
Karen Hawkins
#98. If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.
Lou Brock
#99. We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.
Jerry Bridges
#100. School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.
John Taylor Gatto
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