Challenge Quotes

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

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

~ Laura Wilkinson

The highest calling of leadership 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

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

~ Louis Farrakhan

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

~ Jesse Jackson

The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.

~ Azim Premji

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

~ Matt Salmon

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

~ Ben Nelson

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

~ Graham Greene

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

~ Simon Schama

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

~ Carl Lewis

I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.

~ Kristian Bush

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.

~ Debbie Ford

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

~ Donald Trump

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

~ Stephen Covey

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

~ Roy Barnes

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

~ Tory Burch

Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.

~ Anthony Rizzo

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

~ Jessica Capshaw

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.

~ Anthony Fauci

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

~ Abdullah Ii Of Jordan

Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.

~ Natalie Dormer

I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

~ Jason Isbell

Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.

~ Maajid Nawaz

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

~ Troy Polamalu

AT&T Park, chalk it up. This is a great pitcher's park, great weather. It's a great place to pitch. It's all positive and no negative. You can go out and challenge guys. I've got the confidence to attack the strike zone and not nibble so much.

~ Tim Hudson

A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

~ Andrea Bocelli

Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.

~ Mariella Frostrup

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

~ Lewis Howes

'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife.

~ Isaac Hanson

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

~ John Mackey

Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'

~ Jane Mcgonigal

My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.

~ John Boyega

My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.

~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

While I'd like to make movies that are uplifting, there's always that part of you that goes, 'I want to play the evil guy because it's not me.' So anything that is not me is a challenge, and if I rise to the challenge, then I've kind of proved myself.

~ Dean O'gorman

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

~ Ron Paul

Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.

~ Claire Danes

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

~ Whittaker Chambers

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

~ Dean Inge