Quotes about Challenge
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
— Abraham Lincoln
The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us, or inspire anew as truly original work can.
— Eric Metaxas
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
— Steven Pressfield
Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
— Alain de Botton
Thinking is the hardest work we do.
— Henry Ford
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
— Martha Graham
The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.
— DL Moody
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
— Albert Camus
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
— Maya Angelou
This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
— St. John Chrysostom