Top 100 The Challenge Quotes
#1. It's a dirty, dirty job, Abby, but I'm up to the challenge." A wag of his brows and a wicked grin had me laughing at his innuendo.
Ashlan Thomas
#2. My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge.
Robert Ryman
#3. As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.
Fulton J. Sheen
#4. In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.
David Haye
#5. To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how I can convert the challenge into an opportunity.
Tony Robbins
#6. Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. The challenge, it turns out, isn't in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of
Seth Godin
#8. To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#9. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#10. The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
Alain De Botton
#11. Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge - it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.
Mahendra Ramsinghani
#12. Keep strong and stay determined. You are capable of overcoming the challenge.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. 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
#14. Consumers around the world always want something unexpected and exciting, and that's what drives me. I love the challenge of reinterpreting my designs in new ways each season to keep the "prep look" modern and fresh.
Tommy Hilfiger
#15. It was in grasping the reality of his divine parentage as a son of God, as well as his relationship with Christ and the promise of eternal life, that Moses was able to resist the challenge presented by Satan.
David S. Baxter
#16. It's always better if you can keep the bar low, and then exceed the expectation. When it's high, that makes the job even tougher. But, I think we're up for the challenge. We're ready.
Will Packer
#17. Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic.
Mark Salling
#18. Christians who understand biblical truth and have the courage to live it out can indeed redeem a culture, or even create one. This is the challenge facing all of us in the new millennium.
Charles W. Colson
#19. Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the challenge is always to find a cool and innovative way to do it and, obviously, to not repeat your jokes.
Ana Gasteyer
#20. The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.
Brandi Chastain
#22. The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.
Radhanath Swami
#23. The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.
Robert Zubrin
#24. The challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.
Phyllis Rose
#25. The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.
Fred Bear
#26. The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.
Chelsea Handler
#27. There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.
Toni Collette
#28. The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
Tariq Ramadan
#29. Determination in spite of the challenge makes us stronger.
Ellen J. Barrier
#30. Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.
John Cusack
#31. People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.
Rachel Kushner
#32. I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#33. Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.
Steve Maraboli
#34. No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.
Paulo Coelho
#35. The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.
Oprah Winfrey
#36. Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.
Dalai Lama
#37. I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story.
Shane Black
#38. I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
Sasha Cohen
#39. I knew it the moment I saw the scar, saw the flatness behind her eyes, like a pool that has lost all its depth.
Either she doesn't detect the challenge or she chooses to ignore it.
Lauren Oliver
#40. The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.
Angelique Kidjo
#41. The challenge, then, is to make men want sex that's less like a battle and more like an unusually satisfying UN meeting, where everybody understands the proceedings and gets a vote.
Anonymous
#42. The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
Simon Sinek
#43. Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this picture changes daily. Planning's job is to help separate the temporary shifts from foundational understanding that underpins overall behaviour.
James W. Moseley
#44. The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
James C. Collins
#45. The challenge is trying to set people free, and help them be 'successful' in the world, which are almost always opposite objectives.
Bryant McGill
#46. I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
#47. To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.
Kevin Conroy
#48. There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?
Simon Mainwaring
#49. It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.
Marguerite Moreau
#50. The challenge is, to live in a house from which meaning has departed, like air leaking from a balloon. A slow leak, yet lethal. And one day, the balloon is flat: it is not a balloon any longer. By
Joyce Carol Oates
#51. For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing.
Jean Dujardin
#52. I really like the challenge of working with different kinds of music. I feel like my role is really like a coach, so I feel like I can do my job for different kinds of music that may not necessarily be what I listen to.
Rick Rubin
#53. It's really tough for the small farmer to have a successful business. That is the big challenge - all the laws are designed for larger corporations. And that's going to be the challenge in this country; it goes beyond food.
Robert Kenner
#54. The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.
Jacob Lew
#55. We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.
Jim Yong Kim
#56. Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it.
Marv Harshman
#57. In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
John Thorn
#58. That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.
Chad Pennington
#59. The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.
Eudora Welty
#60. The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
Ty Cobb
#61. The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.
Gustavo Dudamel
#62. The challenge for the IT leader is to set the right priority, manage the limited budget and resource, to "Do more with innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#63. 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
#64. Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.
Mo Ibrahim
#65. You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.
Bunker Roy
#66. Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available.
Richard Brown
#67. The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going.
Anne Bancroft
#68. Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.
Gabriel Campisi
#69. When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
Marva Collins
#70. You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
J. D. Hayworth
#71. I'm afraid you're going to break me, Quinn."
"Don't let me." The challenge in his eyes intensified, heating up and pouring strength into me. "Don't you let me fucking do that, Emilie. Don't let anyone break you. You're stronger than that.
Lyla Payne
#72. I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.
Peter Coyote
#73. People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
Abbe Pierre
#74. The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
Oprah Winfrey
#75. I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.
Brandy Norwood
#76. I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.
Pedro Martinez
#77. So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.
Lee Majors
#78. Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.
Libba Bray
#79. I've seen so many of my friends and collaborators struggle and face the challenge of feeling like what they're working so hard to create and put into the world isn't important or appreciated ... it's like being in love with someone who won't give you the time of day.
Kate Brown
#80. What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.
Anatoli Boukreev
#81. When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.
Tori Kelly
#82. Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
Ian Bremmer
#83. The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20
David Brazzeal
#84. Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.
Frank Lampard
#85. I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli
#86. The challenge and the dignity make it interesting enough. Besides,
Anne Lamott
#88. Look at Christ on the cross. Think of the challenge that must have been for Him. The agony of betrayal by people He had trusted, and death. And afterward came the resurrection. He proved that no challenge, no matter how great, could end His love for us.
Danielle Steel
#89. Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.
Steve Maraboli
#90. Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.
Boyd K. Packer
#91. It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience, and compassion.
Dalai Lama XIV
#92. But that's the challenge
to change the system more than it changes you.
Michael Pollan
#93. the challenge of living with popular culture may well be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the saints of earlier centuries.
Ken Myers
#94. Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.
Simon Sinek
#95. The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.
James Tate
#96. My guys look for me to step up in that magnitude and I take the challenge every time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you've got to have a guy that will take those shots and deal with the consequences.
Chauncey Billups
#97. The question, then, the art, the task, the search, the challenge, the invitation is for you and me to become more and more the kind of people who are aware of the divine presence, attuned to the ruach,
Rob Bell
#98. The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.
Kabir Sehgal
#99. I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.
Paula Cole
#100. I nearly believe you. The challenge remains extended-make me believe you
Benjamin
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