Quotes about Challenge

Faith is not faith until it is tested!

No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they'll take it back.

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.

It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.