Top 100 Challenge Quotes
#1. We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of doable, affordable steps? How can we break that problem down into chunks in order to keep making progress?'
Ellen Stofan
#2. The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#3. An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence
Christopher Hitchens
#4. I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.
LeBron James
#5. Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
David McCullough Jr.
#6. Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#7. A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
Rick Bass
#8. I don't know what it is about Ackbar that tends to quash arguments. He has a kind of moist charisma, I guess, that no one wants to challenge. I know I don't want to dispute him, anyway.
Kevin Hearne
#9. I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture ...
Dawoud Bey
#10. We can respond creatively to what we experience as life-depriving and become richer in spirit for having met the challenge.
Tad Crawford
#11. That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!
Roman Coppola
#12. I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#13. You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!
Tyler Ward
#14. Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
Edward Abbey
#15. Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.
Bob Newhart
#16. Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge.
Steve Pink
#17. I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best.
Shayne Ward
#18. My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress.
Jason Chaffetz
#19. I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.
Malcolm Forbes
#20. I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
Patricia Briggs
#21. I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#22. My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.
Dalton McGuinty
#23. No, by my soul, I never in my life
Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
Unless a brother should a brother dare
To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
William Shakespeare
#24. I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#25. There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to keep that story going. And it's very important that writers challenge that occasionally and not just trust their parent companies to tell them.
Danny Boyle
#26. In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.
Nicola Sturgeon
#27. I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
Alan Dean Foster
#28. Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
Tatiana Maslany
#30. There's some things that you're passionate about as a director. You just know it has to be a certain way. The challenge is resolving those so everyone is happy and no one feels that they have not been heard.
Ricky Schroder
#31. When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you've come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing?
Teresa Hirst
#32. Jackson, are you trying to challenge my authority as Alpha? Taz growled out. Ha! Therein the bullsh*t begins.
Shakuita Johnson
#33. I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.
Tom Jenkinson
#34. But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#35. You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
Jeanette Winterson
#36. A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.
Evgeny Morozov
#37. I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.
Jonathan Kozol
#38. For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.
Erik Johansson
#39. Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.
Barack Obama
#40. Vision, the challenge of the next century, the new millennium, the road ahead.
Michael Lewis
#41. I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself.
Tom Cruise
#42. This terrible tragedy ... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity.
Vladimir Putin
#43. I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
Felix Baumgartner
#44. The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.
George Soros
#45. Celebrate each accomplishment on your way to reaching your goal. Each challenge conquered whether large or small is a positive step to greatness.
Robert Cheeke
#46. I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.
Joel Osteen
#47. Confidence, even when under pressure, has a way of turning an impossible situation into just another challenge to be met.
David Amerland
#48. The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.
Lady Bird Johnson
#49. For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.
Sheri L. Dew
#50. Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.
David Deida
#51. New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.
Lawren Harris
#52. Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere.
Arthur Miller
#53. I like a challenge. I always have.
Roy Oswalt
#54. The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#55. The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.
Jim Rohn
#56. As if you're admiring your own psychology and are grasping at every tiny detail, in order to astonish the reader with your insensitivity which is not a part of you. What is this if not the proud challenge of a guilty man to his judge?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#57. Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.
Iyanla Vanzant
#58. I turn the tables and challenge our people, our scouts, and they respond. We had a meeting with our scouts this week and told them [we] will use and value their opinions. That perks them up.
Doug Melvin
#59. You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself.
Justin Timberlake
#60. And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
Andrea Martin
#61. I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.
Nicholas Thorburn
#62. I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.
Ashton Eaton
#63. In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.
James E. Faust
#64. I think Roosevelt proves himself to be the ultimate political force in this book. He really wasn't for primaries until he realized it was the only way in which he could challenge a sitting president then it becomes his crusade, is to create the primaries and to call for the people to rule.
Geoffrey Cowan
#65. Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as an internally coherent tradition, and to express its vision in a way that responded to the needs of the new situation.
Stephen Batchelor
#66. Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.
Andy Taylor
#67. Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.
Maajid Nawaz
#68. For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
#69. Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
John F. Kerry
#70. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
Og Mandino
#71. The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#72. Coaches don't sleep for a reason. They don't sleep because it's a danger zone every night. Very seldom do you ever get two or three days off ... The lifestyle of coaching in the NBA is a tremendous challenge that gives you tremendous highs but also tremendous lows.
George Karl
#74. Established actors will challenge you if they don't agree with the way you are taking it, and you have to argue it. But with a younger cast, they are more likely to wonder whether what they are doing is okay instead of trying to second guess the director. That helps push you.
Lenny Abrahamson
#75. The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life.
M. Scott Peck
#76. You have to be open, and being open is a daily challenge, I think.
Mike Ness
#77. Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge
Robyn Dawes
#78. The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.
M.C. Halliday
#79. This is the greatest challenge of faith, says Polish, "to live with a God we cannot fully understand, whose actions we explain at our own peril.
James Martin
#80. If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.
Edsger Dijkstra
#82. That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.
Anton Myrer
#83. I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.
John Noble
#85. Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals.
Chris Penn
#86. I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an athlete is and to challenge themselves in the same way, to the same physical degree.
Twyla Tharp
#87. The challenge of creation reduces us to the inevitable. Our lives are full of tiny disasters.
Floriano Martins
#88. I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.
Andrew Buchan
#89. The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.
Henrik Fisker
#90. The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.
Athol Fugard
#91. It isn't so much life's problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#92. It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.
Phil Ehart
#93. As an independent filmmaker, the biggest challenge is finding the money. Whenever you have interest in a film project you need to find investors who are real. I think most independent filmmakers would echo that sentiment.
Harrison Smith
#94. At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't garner much attention in the frenetic world of mass culture.
Rolf Potts
#95. When you're playing a character for 10 years, it can challenge you less than it did at the beginning, so it was exciting to take on some new shoes. Especially with Erich Blunt, because being a tech wizard wasn't something I thought I would do after Harry Potter.
Tom Felton
#96. Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church.
Pope Francis
#98. The techniques of Aikido change constantly; every encounter is unique, and the appropriate response should emerge naturally. Today's techniques will be different tomorrow. Do not get caught up with the form and appearance of a challenge. Aikido has no form - it is the study of the spirit
Morihei Ueshiba
#99. Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.
Bobby Flay
#100. I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.
Neneh Cherry
