Most Challenging Quotes

#1. I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.

Jimmy Carter

#2. 'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

Michael J. Fox

#3. If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

Bruce Willis

#4. Ever since I arrived in America to promote "Stoker," I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.

Park Chan-wook

#5. Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead.
Dane: It's a challenge.
Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging?
Dane: Living up to your reputation.

Anne Osterlund

#6. You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

Natalie Martinez

#7. In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.

Sherilyn Fenn

#8. Even when it is the most challenging, you will never know how far you will go unless you do It your way.

Steven Cuoco

#9. Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

Nita Ambani

#10. I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.

Estella Warren

#11. Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

Herbert Simon

#12. The meal plan was hard at first because I am a snack eater, but the most challenging part is trying to change my pallet to like healthy food.

Ruby Gettinger

#13. This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Leonard Cohen

#14. You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.

Joel Kinnaman

#15. I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.

Ariana Grande

#16. You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

Bob Seger

#17. I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

Jack White

#18. The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Steven Burd

#19. Simple things are often the most challenging.

Jodi Meadows

#20. Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

Arne Duncan

#21. Sometimes, challenging a person to do their best is the most kind and compassionate thing you can do for them.

Charles F. Glassman

#22. It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

Kerri Walsh

#23. One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering the familiarity that keeps longtime fans devoted to the characters and story world.

Tina St. John

#24. Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and direct confrontation with meaning, identity, and death.

Paul Kalanithi

#25. People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

Christopher Walken

#26. The most challenging aspect of living is staying in your lane.

T.F. Hodge

#27. The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Ed Miliband

#28. Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.

Alice S. Rossi

#29. The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

Stephen Covey

#30. Why not?' She asks the most challenging questions that a woman can ask. 'Why should I not read? Why should I not think? Why should I not speak?

Philippa Gregory

#31. The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

Paul Auster

#32. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

#33. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

Angela Braly

#34. Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

William Russell

#35. I think that learning Burmese has to have been one of the most challenging things that I have had to do for a movie.

Michelle Yeoh

#36. The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.

Bruce Jenner

#37. I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.

Dennis Quaid

#38. If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

Seth Numrich

#39. When we make appreciation the central theme of our value system, then all the painful elements of our past become meaningful lessons we could not have done without. Acceptance becomes natural when we become adept at finding the silver lining, even in the most challenging circumstances.

Pooja Ruprell

#40. Driving in someone elses lane is easy, but remaining in your own seems to be the most challenging self discipline. No matter how big the highway, imagine yours is a singular road traveled in one direction - you're own.

T.F. Hodge

#41. I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

Chad Lowe

#42. It is certainly true that as we grow older, our need for healthcare also grows. It is also true that those who have lived their lives in the most difficult circumstances and experienced the most exhausting and challenging work places need healthcare the most.

David Blunkett

#43. I prefer to just jump into something instead of put it on the back burner, and I suppose that's how I deal with most challenging things. I'd rather just attack it head-on.

Kate Bosworth

#44. The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

James A. Michener

#45. Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship.

Tim Matheson

#46. It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals and getting goodies or good vibes right now. You have character when you most often choose ideals.

Laura C. Schlessinger

#47. For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

Jim Lovell

#48. Herbalife has been a part of the most challenging expeditions that I've done and the products have become a really critical and ongoing part my diet.

Sebastian Copeland

#49. In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

Satish Kumar

#50. Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
David Bowie

David Bowie

#51. The Bf 109 is, without doubt, the most satisfying and challenging aircraft that I have ever flown.

Mark Hanna

#52. Now that we've made that decision, everyone is thinking about the practical consequences and I think Theresa May could be the most challenging prime ministership since the Suez Crisis, possibly since the Second World War.

Jeremy Hunt

#53. The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.

Anna Quindlen

#54. Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership.

Pearl Zhu

#55. We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.

Chris Meledandri

#56. Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the Internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of the planet can probe your computer for weaknesses and exploit them to gain access to your most sensitive secrets.

Kevin Mitnick

#57. I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

Michael Douglas

#58. Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.

Scott Speedman

#59. For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

Bruce Beresford

#60. For me, as an actor, the most challenging thing is creating the character in the beginning because you have to write their backstory. The easy part about doing a sequel is that you've done the film, so you already know their backstory.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

#61. The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

Gaspard Ulliel

#62. The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .

Arthur David Beaty

#63. When I accomplish a challenging goal it is one of the most powerful and wonderful feelings in the world.

Robert Cheeke

#64. Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Philip Johnson

#65. The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Mark Nepo

#66. Miracles may occur now and then, but for the most part ordinary pilgrims do God's work by preaching, caring for widows and orphans, challenging society's wrongs, and marshaling the faithful to show the world a better way to live.

Philip Yancey

#67. We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

Peter Russell

#68. I think the most challenging aspect was keeping up the degree of physical fitness you need while filming a major leading role in a primetime U.S. series. You have very little time to sleep and eat, let alone train.

Dustin Clare

#69. Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom, Putin said.

Vladimir Putin

#70. 'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does.

Robert Gottlieb

#71. Don't worry if you're having a hard time following this oversimplified explanation of physics' most challenging problem. For most of us, understanding special relativity is a little like true love: We should consider ourselves lucky if we can grasp hold of it for even one fleeting moment.

Seth Mnookin

#72. My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Kelly Price

#73. Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.

Jerry Spinelli

#74. Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Donald Rumsfeld

#75. ...it feels as if mountain pose is the most challenging of all yoga poses. To be still. To be grounded. To claim one's place in the world.

Dani Shapiro

#76. Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things ... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Bethany Hamilton

#77. As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

Wayne Teasdale

#78. Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

Naomi Wolf

#79. I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

Galen Rowell

#80. Fun wouldn't be the right word ... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

Uma Thurman

#81. I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.

William Hurt

#82. Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Jake Shimabukuro

#83. I smiled at her, my most comforting, challenging, I'm-not-really-a-shark smile.

Jeff Lindsay

#84. Healing is a different type of pain. It's the pain of becoming aware of the power of one's strength and weakness, of one's capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

Caroline Myss

#85. The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

Adyashanti

#86. Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Brian Weiss

#87. It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing.

Brett Lee

#88. Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

Karen Hesse

#89. I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

Jenn Proske

#90. Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.

Steven Moffat

#91. I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Michael Sheen

#92. There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

Marlee Matlin

#93. I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.

Tyrese Gibson

#94. I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

David Bowie

#95. The challenging part is in the beginning; its a leap of faith. But I think the most important thing is to just do it. Start.

Tom Szaky

#96. Step confidently forward in the precisely the direction that is the most challenging to you. Because in that same direction, you'll also find what is most rewarding to you.

Ralph Marston

#97. YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES - THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.

John Bevere

#98. Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.

I.M. Pei

#99. It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

Roger Ballen

#100. Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.

Tosca Reno