Top 100 Change Challenge Quotes
#1. Dreamers don't fear change, challenge, commitment and responsibility.
Euginia Herlihy
#2. Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement.
Jeffrey Fry
#3. Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.
Chelsea Clinton
#4. I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.
James Cameron
#5. The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.
Ilchi Lee
#6. To change yourself, never forget to challenge yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.
Kris Carr
#8. Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable ... one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a responsibility for their emissions ... therefore what somebody else does is really irrelevant
George C. Marshall
#9. The artist speaks with inspiring tools of creativity. Thinkers challenge with the weapons of choice. These two forces are necessary to move souls beyond limitation.
T.F. Hodge
#10. The grass is a very big challenge for me. There are these low bounces and different movements, which is very difficult, especially for my height and weight. When the surfaces change, and I start to play on grass, I start to feel it in the lower back and the lower hamstring.
Tomas Berdych
#11. I think the main thing for young women is to have confidence and not be afraid to challenge continuing inequalities, because that's the only way you'll get change.
Sarah Gavron
#12. The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#13. If it doesn't challenge you, it will not change you.
Tamika L. Sims
#14. People who suffer the most from a given state of affairs are paradoxically the least likely to question, challenge, reject, or change it.
Adam M. Grant
#15. Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race
Tony Blair
#17. I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.
Charlotte Riley
#18. Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#19. The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if the current situation continues, then the world will not be able to handle this burden.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#20. The biggest challenge [for movie Agnus dei] - working in a foreign country with a predominantly Polish cast and crew - also proved to be the biggest blessing. Being surrounded by all this change , [both] culturally [and] linguistically, was a new and refreshing inspiration.
Anne Fontaine
#21. In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.
Phil McGraw
#22. It is often said that we are just a moment in time! In that case, here is the best challenge for man: To change this! To be two moments in time; three moments in time; four moments in time; to be in the whole of the time!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!
Chris Oyakhilome
#24. Above all, during the interval, change from "ego orientation" to "task orientation." Think: "I know this seems like a personal insult, but it is not. It is a challenge to be overcome that calls on skills I have.
Martin E.P. Seligman
#25. If something were to happen that went against our current understanding of reality, scientists would see that as a challenge to our present model, requiring us to abandon or at least change it. It is through such adjustments and subsequent testing that we approach closer and closer to what is true.
Richard Dawkins
#26. There is no fate cut in stone that love cannot challenge and change.
Cassie Wright
#27. Adaptation is a vital part of a response to the challenge of climate change
Nicholas Stern
#28. If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.
Fred DeVito
#29. Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.
David Suzuki
#30. The challenge for us is to find some response that actually inspires change rather than clinging to the old ways that cause resentment, and more importantly, distract from the real problem.
Adele Faber
#31. We change when circumstances necessitate it; we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#32. Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
Hillary Clinton
#33. If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.
Bjorn Lomborg
#34. The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.
David Ignatius
#35. A life of living free and taking endless satisfaction from a person's promiscuous meanderings entails intermittently retooling oneself to meet a desired future. Perhaps the most difficult challenge of life is detecting when the ground moves beneath us and then nimbly shifting our mental perspective.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#36. Many people shun an anointed atmosphere because they know that it will challenge them to change. Preferring to stay where the power of God is not moving, they are never challenged, convicted, or transformed.
T.D. Jakes
#37. Stop using, "easier said than done", as an excuse to not change! Bringing your life to a higher level is challenging; get over it and rise to the challenge!
Steve Maraboli
#38. What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.
Penny Jordan
#39. Every time you overcome a difficult challenge you will have a story and that story is what changes lives.
Farshad Asl
#40. IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.
Stafford Beer
#41. The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.
Sarah Palin
#42. Challenge yourself or what you are right now is the best you will ever be and never what you thought you would be.
Auliq Ice
#43. Climate change is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.
Ban Ki-moon
#44. The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.
Peter Garrett
#45. Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information).
Anthony Braxton
#46. Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.
Chris Prentiss
#47. I arise to face my failures every morning, but I never fail to face them.
Gino Norris
#48. Whether ... a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place ... depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge ...
Erich Fromm
#49. My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of the Rings' because it was so massive, but it's something I've always believed in, wanting to change people's perceptions and challenge myself as an actor.
Elijah Wood
#50. No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
Jeff Bezos
#51. We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that's a match for the climate challenge.
Martin O'Malley
#52. No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.
Barack Obama
#53. Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it's simply your attitude.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#54. Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
Andy Stanley
#55. It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
Rose Wilder Lane
#56. The Creator of all men and all things has provided the challenge of change, the necessity for acceptance, and variations of all patterns. We live by change, by struggle and the unexpected; for only in change, struggle, and the unexpected can we achieve growth.
Faith Baldwin
#57. The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.
Douglas B. Reeves
#58. The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#60. Research has shown the challenge caused by Climate change is mainly man-made due to abdication of leadership and personal responsibility in taking care of the environment. Will you be part of the army replenishing the earth and promoting proper stewardship of its resources?
Archibald Marwizi
#61. To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.
Guy De Maupassant
#62. Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not true. We can tackle this challenge while improving our personal health and the health of our economy. These are not competing interests; they go hand in hand.
Paul Tonko
#63. I have a very strong opinion. I'm absolutely against it. I'm against the challenge system. I'm for the way it is right now. Don't change that.
Roger Federer
#64. Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#65. I must not imagine what is 'not' as a means of escaping what 'is'. Rather, I must understand what 'is' and imagine how I can make it what it is 'not'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#66. Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.
Kristin Armstrong
#67. My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
Muhammad Yunus
#68. These are times of unprecedented challenge and change in the airline industry, and the appointments we are announcing today will put American in an even stronger position to continue the substantial progress that has already been made under the tenets of our Turnaround Plan.
Gerard Arpey
#69. Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
Tony Blair
#70. Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Marsha Sinetar
#71. Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It's not just about who can beat up to or who's tougher, it's who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it's about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.
Jon Bernthal
#72. The human side of analytics is the biggest challenge to implementing big data.
Paul Gibbons
#73. If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you.
Fred DeVito
#74. It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
Naomi Campbell
#75. Perceptions of black criminality aren't likely to change until black behavior changes. Rather than address that challenge, however, too many liberal policy makers change the subject. Instead of talking about black behavior, they want to talk about racism or poverty or unemployment or gun control.
Jason L. Riley
#76. We all have to change with the times ... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.
Robert Englund
#77. The challenge of good men is not to thwart change, but to mold it as it comes, so that it may benefit rather than destroy.
G. Norman Lippert
#78. The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
Gustavo Dudamel
#79. I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.
Emily Bett Rickards
#80. Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.
Hu Jintao
#81. Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.
John C. Maxwell
#82. If you do not like what someone says, stand up and challenge them by saying what you feel. Be the change that you want to see in the world around you.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#83. Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.
Charles Koch
#84. Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.
Azar Nafisi
#85. Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.
Muhammad Yunus
#86. Professional learning does not advance ... through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions
Douglass B. Reeves
#87. I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.
Federico Pena
#88. The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.
Al Gore
#89. It's easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That's America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
Michelle Obama
#90. Chantel made a comment on your profile
As you walk in life's path, there is joy, sorrow, challenge, and change. You will have confrontation, so you must be ready to handle whatever comes your way.
Saint Matthew's Churches
#91. Why? Why not do things differently? Why should we do things how they have always been done before? And something inside her suddenly thrilled to the challenge.
Terry Pratchett
#92. At a time of change and challenge at home and abroad, these investments will enhance the security of Americans, assure the future American leadership, and help build the foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity in the years ahead.
Hillary Clinton
#93. Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
Prince Charles
#94. Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.
Wesley K. Wark
#95. What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
Nicholas Sparks
#96. And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#97. We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.
Jackson Katz
#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. Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?
Kathleen Hanna
#100. The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?
Jeffrey R. Anderson
