Quotes about Challenge

Former President of the United States

I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

Bravery - Challenge - End

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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

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.

Challenge - Improvement - Inspiration - Learning - Masterpiece - People - Positive - Success - Teaching

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Jimmy Carter

Former President of the United States

People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world. It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.

Challenge - Difficulty - Inspiration

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Alan Cohen

Author

Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance.

Ability - Awakening - Challenge - Giving - Mastering - Movement - Turmoil

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Indira Gandhi

Former Prime Minister of India

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

Challenge - Knowledge - Leadership - Someday - Trial - Wellness

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Edward Abbey

Artist, Author, Author

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

Challenge - Finding - People - Pleasure - Provocation - Writing

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.

Challenge - Discouragement - Feelings

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'

Challenge - Environment

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

Challenge - Opportunity

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Homer

Poet

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing.

Challenge - Spirits

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John F. Kennedy

Former President of the United States

I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.

Belief - Challenge - President - State - Unions - Watching

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Brian Tracy

Author, Public Speaker

The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it

Achievement - Challenge - Difficulty - Goals - Key - Overcome - Payment - Persistence - Price

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Sri Chinmoy

Philosopher, Author

The whole world is looking for miracles. Every day it is dying to see miracles. But can there be any miracle More challenging, more illumining And more fulfilling Than to see and feel the infinite Beauty Of my Beloved Supreme Inside this tinier than the tiniest Gratitude-heart of mine?

Challenge - Death - Feelings - Fulfilment - Miracle - Whole - World

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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.

Challenge - Creativity - Goals - Help - Selecting - Trial

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Warren Buffett

Business Magnate, Investor, Speaker

Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong (a challenge we periodically manage to overcome).

Ability - Challenge - Endurance - Management - Overcome - Ownership - Sense

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

Challenge - Sarcasm - Wit

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

Animals - Challenge - Commanding - Distinction - Doing - Intelligence - Kindness - Knowledge - Obedience - Real - Research - Simple - Trickery

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.

Belief - Challenge - Emergency - Experimenting - Information - Legislature - People - Taking - Thinking - World

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Challenge - Difficulty - Encouragement - Lie - Motivation - Optimism - Positive - Success

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Ability - Challenge - Fall - Finding - Habit - Hope - Life - Loss - Reaction - Real - Strength - Taking - Teaching - Thanks

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