Quotes about Challenge

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it… Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.