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1. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
2. “Life is full of challenges, but these challenges are only given to you because God knows your faith is strong enough to get you through them.” – Anonymous
3. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland
4. “You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.” – Michelle Obama
5. “You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.” – Roy T. Bennett
6. “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” – Roy T. Bennett
7. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Confucius
8. “Your character is formed by the challenges you face and overcome.” – Nick Vujicic
9. “The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.” – Bette Davis
10. “The brain needs to be regularly challenged in order to attain its uttermost performance.” – Frank Knoll
11. “We don’t grow when things are easy; we grow when we face challenges.” – Anonymous
12. “Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.” – Brian Tracy
13. “Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Anonymous
14. “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.” – Cicely Tyson
15. “Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
16. “A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge.” – China Miéville
17. “Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.” – Roy T. Bennett
18. “When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.” – Roy T. Bennett
19. “Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of accomplishing more than you know. You have more potential than you think, but you will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself and pushing beyond your own self imposed limits.” – Roy T. Bennett
20. “Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.” – Roy T. Bennett
21. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
22. “Even when life challenges us, it’s a gift beyond all measure.” – Parker Palmer
23. “Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.” – Liu Xiang
24. “Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal, some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.” – Brendon Burchard
25. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
26. “Courage comes while we are facing challenges and because we are facing challenges. Courage takes our hand as we step up.” – C. Cooper
27. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn
28. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
29. “If you don’t challenge yourself, you will never realize what you can become.” – Anonymous
30. “A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.” – Anonymous
31. “When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.” – Roy T. Bennett
32. “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.” – Margaret Thatcher
33. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” – Fred Devito
34. “You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you’re faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you’ll overcome it. Yes, you can.” – Roy T. Bennett
35. “Together, we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi
36. “I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them. And once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm.” – Wayne Messam
37. “You come up against challenges in life, and it’s how you deal with them that defines you.” – Harry Kane
38. “We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and conquer them.” – Victoria Arlen
39. “You will encounter misguided people from time to time—that’s part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect, and persevere in your personal growth and development.” – Bernice King
40. “In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It’s when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it’s almost incomprehensible.” – Sarah McBride
41. “When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.” – Terry Brennan
42. “No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.” – Charles Kettering
43. “Part of the challenge that comes with striving for success is how the entire journey comes with its own fair share of failures and disappointments.” – Rupert Johnson
44. “The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.” – Anonymous
45. “Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn’t come easy.” – Tim Westergren
46. “That is the challenge, companion—to take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.” – Robin Hobb
47. “If you compared your troubles or challenges with those of others, you would surely find that there are those whose troubles make yours look like minor inconveniences.” – Catherine Pulsifer
48. “I personally think if something’s not a challenge, there’s no point doing it, because you’re not gonna learn much.” – Tom Holland
49. “Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” – Leo Buscaglia
50. “People do not only talk about successes, they talk about people who overcame their challenges or disabilities. Others are inspired when you are able to overcome your challenges.” – Jaya Ramachandran
51. “Learn from the stories of people who faced challenges you haven’t yet experienced.” – Joanna Barsh
52. “We must allow ourselves to be adorned by lessons derived through hardships and challenges.” – Tony Narams
53. “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” –
54. “A life filled with vicissitudes, uncertainty, and hard lessons provides us with skills to better approach new challenges that come along.” – Vivian Eisenecher
55. “When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They’re sent to promote, increase, and strengthen you.” – Anonymous
56. “We are not defined by our challenges, but lifted up by them.” – Anonymous
57. “Sometimes, those who challenge you most teach us best.” – Anonymous
58. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” – Paulo Coelho
59. “The most challenging times bring us the most empowering lessons.” – Karen Salmansohn
60. “Be a bit of a challenge, not because you’re playing games, but because you realize you’re worth the extra effort.” – Mandy Hale
61. “My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.” – Richard Branson
62. “Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.” –
63. “Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.” – Colin Powell
64. “Understand that it is okay to be scared or uncertain, however, right beyond those barriers ultimately lies your dreams.” – Josh Hinds
65. “Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable, and attain the impossible.” – William Arthur Ward
66. “I decided to put myself into harm’s way whenever possible in order to move forward and willingly accept the new challenges regardless of the risk.” – John Wessinger
67. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” – Randy Pausch
68. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” –
69. “The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” – Arnold Palmer
70. “Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” – Roy T. Bennett
71. “When life gets harder, challenge yourself to be stronger.” – Anonymous
72. “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” – William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
73. “You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end—that’s the only way you’ll succeed.” – G-Dragon
74. “No matter what kind of challenges, or difficulties, or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.” – Alana Stewart
75. “Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.” – Linda Thompson
76. “You need to have self-esteem to be able to adequately tackle the challenges that life throws at you.” – Minka Ferguson
77. “People with high self-efficacy see difficult tasks as interesting challenges to be mastered, instead of as impossible, scary threats to be avoided.” – Devra Davis
78. “Remember all the challenges that you have overcome in the past and take pride in your success. You are a fighter and you know it. This will give you more faith that you can handle whatever is yet to come.” – Ashley Rosebloom
79. “Success people are their own best friend first before they are anyone else’s. Through challenging and difficult times, they maintain self-confidence through positive self-talk and a positive frame of mind.” – Theodore Newton Vail Gwen Stapleton
80. “If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before, don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.” – Joyce Meyer
81. “If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” – T.S. Eliot
82. “No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.” –
83. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J. M. Barrie
84. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
85. “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
86. “The biggest challenge of life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.” – Anonymous
87. “Be your biggest competitor, challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday.” – Anonymous
88. “I like to challenge myself, I like to learn—so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.” – David Schwimmer
89. “Gradually, I learned to cease looking upon challenges as difficulties and began to see tense situations as opportunities to put my growing love to use.” – Eknath Easwaran
90. “Challenges are an opportunity to test you and rise to the next level.” – Angelica Montrose
91. “Hope and change are hard-fought things.” – Michelle Obama
92. “Although financial may present more of a challenge for many people, it will also afford a greater opportunity for personal growth, a feeling of internal alignment, and perhaps even spiritual development.” – Mark V. Ewert
93. “Part of life is understanding that real change and progress comes with dedicated perseverance, but also realizing that challenges, obstacles, and roadblocks will appear from time to time.” – Robert Rivers
94. “Challenge is what forces evolution to happen, and with these challenges, there is change. Change is an inevitable necessity for growth.” – Lily Sanders
95. “A person with the right attitude says to himself or herself, ‘I may be here in this situation, but it doesn’t mean I have to stay here.’ When faced with a challenge, do you ask, ‘Why me?’ or do you accept the opportunity for you to grow?” – Les Brown
96. “Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant, and to face the challenge of change.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
97. “What if your current challenge is a call to action—a rallying cry that will prepare you for the next phase.” – Anonymous
98. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” –
99. “There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself.” – Anonymous
100. “The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity for growth.” – Anonymous
101. “Challenge yourself everyday to do better and be better. Remember, growth starts with a decision to move beyond your present circumstances.” – Robert Tew
102. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca
103. “These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.” – Abigail Adams
104. “Being in control of your life and about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is, perhaps, the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy, and rewarding life.” – Marilu Henner
105. “The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.” – Steve Maraboli
106. “I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all—think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.” – Hyeonseo Lee
107. “If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass, and you get up each time, you will reach your destination.” – Jonny Kim
108. “There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success.” – Amy Morin
109. “The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.” – Andrew J. Bernstein
110. “If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to , eventually, you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” – Pat Riley
111. “Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.” – Joni Eareckson Tada
112. “We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.” – Tim Berners-Lee
113. “Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference. They are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders—not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.” – Daniel Kahneman
114. “It’s not really about the competition—your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You’re often racing against time. You’re frequently running everything through your mind. You’re always competing against preconceived ideas. It’s not really the person next to you that you worry about.” – Summer Sanders
115. “How we cope with these everyday challenges and how troubled we become is purely down to the way we think about the situation. Through what ‘filter’ do we see the world?” – James Borg
116. “Real difficulties can be overcome. It is the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” – Theodore Newton Vail
117. “Sometimes, overcoming a challenge is as simple as changing the way you think about it.” – Anonymous
118. “The more you practice tolerating discomfort, the more confidence you’ll gain in your ability to accept new challenges.” – Amy Morin
119. “Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.” – Les Brown
120. “Life is short, and nobody knows what’s around the corner, but I’m up for lots of new challenges.” – Ashley Roberts
121. “There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated.” –
122. “You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.” – Antonio Brown
123. “The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.” – Carl Lewis
124. “You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.” – Nate Berkus
125. “Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.” – Anonymous
126. “To accept the challenge of the unknown, in spite of all fears, is courage. The fears are there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly slowly those fears disappear.” – Courage
127. “To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Kafka
128. “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” – Robert W. Service
129. “Surround yourself with good people—surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.” – Ali Krieger
130. “The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It’s to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.” – Alexa Hirschfeld
131. “One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.” – Robin S. Sharma
132. “To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing, it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.” – Summer Sanders
133. “As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler
134. “The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.” – Jurgen Klopp
135. “Sometimes, instead of climbing over the barricades, you’ve got to walk around them.” – Bono
136. “Challenging your thought patterns when you are feeling anxiety can help you to avoid those overwhelming panic sensations.” – Jeff Gunn
137. “Reframe. Challenges are not flashing danger signs, but spectacular opportunities to grow faster and smarter.” – Theodore Newton Vail Joanna Barsh
138. “There may be times when all of us feel like we’re trapped in a paper sack, but with a little bit of common sense, we can fight our way out.” – Henry Adkins
139. “To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.” – Dalai Lama
140. “Smiling is a wonderful way to get a boost of happiness. The next time life presents you with a challenging situation, take a deep breath and smile.” – Morris Pratt
141. “A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.” – Ray Davis
142. “Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of how you learn to overcome them and use them to your advantage.” – Celestine Chua
143. “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” – George S. Patton
144. “Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards.” – Stephen Schwartz
145. “The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair, you feel a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” – Gustave Flaubert
146. “The journey to achieving something will hold challenges, but you’ll learn something about yourself every time you overcome one.” – Hal Fisher
147. “When we set an important goal for ourselves, we present to our minds a problem to be solved, a challenge to be successfully fulfilled.” – Earl Nightingale
148. “I don’t know why babies are born with AIDS, young people get killed in tragic accidents, or the Cubs can’t win a World Series. But I do believe there are blessings in every challenge, and lessons, growth, and ultimately prosperity in what they bring us.” – Allen Klein
149. “People are energized by challenge—they know their work will be judged and that rewards will be based on accomplishment.” – Judith M. Bardwick
150. “As I’ve read about the lives of great achievers, I have learned they all have one thing in common. Each one had to overcome some kind of challenge that threatened to derail them and cause them to abort their purpose.” – Cindy Trimm
151. “Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away, and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.” – Yanni
152. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” – Molière
153. “Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.” – John C. Maxwell
154. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela
155. “Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” – George S. Patton
156. “You don’t become enormously successful without encountering a number of extremely challenging problems.” – Mark Victor Hansen
157. “A comfort zone is the most dangerous area anyone can stay in. It is a place of no growth and no challenges.” – Brian Cagneey
158. “One has to move from one’s comfort zone to challenge oneself.” – Dulquer Salmaan
159. “The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.” – Benedict Cumberbatch
160. “Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of your comfort zone is your biggest challenge.” – Manoj Arora
161. “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” –
162. “Never run from the enemy, tackle them.” – Victoria Addino
163. “I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.” – Nadia Comaneci
164. “Expect obstacles and face them head on. They are going to come up, so the way you handle them is what makes all the difference.” – Lance Dale
165. “When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.” – David Weatherford
166. “It’s too easy to walk away, quitter never wins, so you should better stay—look challenges straight in the eye.” – Z. Vujcic
167. “There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.” – Sean Connery
168. “Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution.” – Anonymous
169. “Don’t run from challenges, run over them.” – Anonymous
170. “Don’t run away from a challenge, instead, run toward it, the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. And the more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Kemmy Nola
171. “We’ve definitely had our share of ups and downs as a group, and there were times we’ve faced some pretty big challenges, but we were able to get through these times, which allowed our bond to grow stronger.” – Lee Tae-min
172. “I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.” – Tim Daly
173. “Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.” – Criss Jami
174. “In my life, I’ve gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame them because I just decided to be happy.” – Lilly Singh
175. “There is good in everything, it’s just how you choose to look at it. Everything that’s worth it has a price. For me to be a model, I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.” – Gisele Bundchen
176. “Fatherhood is not for the weak, it’s not for the clueless or the afraid. It is challenging, and it is rewarding.” – Matthew Buckley
177. “Life throws challenges, and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.” – Amit Ray
178. “Life is full of challenges and surprises.” – Jil Sander
179. “I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don’t always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.” – Jennifer Hyman
180. “Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches, and are able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success, and have a lot of joy in their life, and have a lot of stories to tell, too.” – Josh Turner
181. “I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges—they are part of life.” – Miranda Kerr
182. “I believe that everything you work at and want in life is a great challenge.” – Anthony Rizzo
183. “Life is a gift—accept it, enjoy it, and be happy with it. Life is a challenge, but challenges can always be overcome.” – Catherine Pulsifer
184. “Just when you think you have mastered an aspect of life, it seems there are more challenges thrown our way. What we think, sometimes, is often not what we first believe or seems to change just as we think we are settled on a path or certain direction in life. There are a number of events that seem to distort our perceptions of what we think we wanted.” – Byron Pulsifer
185. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
186. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
187. “When you’re following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.” – Kelly Cutrone
188. “Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett-Henry
189. “Much of life isn’t fair. It’s how you live that matters. It’s how you deal with the bumps in the road.” – Maya Banks
190. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” –
191. “I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.” – Conor McGregor
192. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – John F. Kennedy
193. “The roughest roads often lead to the top.” – Christina Aguilera
194. “Sometimes the hurdles aren’t really hurdles at all. They’re welcome challenges—tests.” –
195. “I wanted to live the life—a different life. I didn’t want to go to the same place every day, and see the same people, and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.” – Harrison Ford
196. “Everything negative—pressure, challenges—is all an opportunity for me to rise.” –
197. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
198. “We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.” – Barack Obama
199. “You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.” – Conor McGregor
200. “I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.” –
201. “I’m always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I’ll build a new one.” –
202. “I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring—a guy who loves challenges.” –
203. “I’ve learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It’s what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you’ve lost it.” – Sandra Bullock
204. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
205. “All of my past challenges have helped me become who I am today.” –
206. “I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them. Unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate and should be dismantled to increase the scope of human freedom.” – Noam Chomsky
207. “There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today—ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity is a major challenge. How to make agriculture sustainable is the challenge.” – M. S. Swaminathan
208. “It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up—wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They’re all there for you.” – John Morgridge
209. “Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.” – Ban Ki-moon
210. “Climate change does not respect borders—it does not respect who you are—rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call ‘global challenges,’ which require global solidarity.” – Ban Ki-moon
211. “Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before, but a challenge to rise to—a challenge we must rise to.” – Joe Lieberman
212. “Sustainability can’t be like some sort of a moral sacrifice, or political dilemma, or a philanthropic cause—it has to be a design challenge.” – Bjarke Ingels
213. “The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.” – Kailash Satyarthi
214. “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” – Nelson Mandela
215. “Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development, and building good governance.” – Kofi Annan
216. “The opportunity to develop resilience comes through difficult circumstances that both highlight and challenge existing mindsets.” – Devra Davis
217. “I am a teacher, it’s how I define myself. A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids, but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That’s the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it’ll have to do a lot with teaching.” – Justin Trudeau
218. “For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny, and establishing an economy, and a government, and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.” – Joe Biden
219. “Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.” – Ron Paul
220. “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” –
221. “I chose to run for President at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together, unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes.” – Barack Obama
222. “The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.” – Warren Bennis
223. “The highest calling of is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.” – Carly Fiorina
224. “Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They’re the ones who constantly ask, ‘What if?’ and ‘Why not?’ They’re not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don’t disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive—they do it to make things better.” – Travis Bradberry
225. “I have also worked with leaders who have a positive outlook, and the morale is so different. Even when faced with challenges, the people looked for solutions.” – Byron and Catherine Pulsifer
226. “One can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.” – Roy T. Bennett
227. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; to be kind, but not weak; to be bold, but not a bully; to be thoughtful, but not lazy; to be humble, but not timid; to be proud, but not arrogant; to have humor, but without folly.” –
228. “When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balanced and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.” – T. B. Joshua
229. “Jesus didn’t waste time worrying. He had plenty to worry about if He chose to. It wasn’t a matter of ignoring His challenges. In fact, He spent a great deal of time praying these things through with His father.” – Beth Beutler
230. “What we choose to do on a daily basis prepares us for the ‘greater’ things God has in store—those faith challenges that will take us into our promised land.” – Lisa Cook
231. “Prayer is one of the greatest assets that a Christian could possess, but sometimes, it seems to be a real challenge to make it a full part of our devotional life.” – Brian Johnston
232. “God tests, but he does not tempt.” – Criss Jami
233. “One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.” – Samuel Wilson
234. “I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me, I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.” – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
235. “There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.” – John C. Mather
236. “As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.” – Dan Schulman
237. “The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.” – Jim Fowler
238. “Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.” – Tahl Raz
239. “I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure—not for stealing, or causing damage, or writing computer viruses.” – Kevin Mitnick
240. “The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can’t throw things together at a farmer’s market. When you’re working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.” – Carla Hall
241. “The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness—but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.” – David S. Rose
242. “The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together in a piece—that the whole film has a unity to it, and actually, that a shot doesn’t stand out.” – Roger Deakins
243. “As a nurse, my greatest challenge has been to always provide the best care possible for my patients and staff within the circumstances, to find solutions rather than problems.” – Anna Maslin
244. “Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.” – Martha Nussbaum
245. “When we do see individuals who are beset by great challenges, yet manage to keep their cool, we are impressed.” – W. Timothy Gallwey
246. “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.” – Anthony Robbins
247. “Happiness is not the absence of problems—it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
248. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often, we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
249. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes them meaningful.” – Anonymous