Quotes about Challenge

She was so pure and so brave and so singular in her faith and obedience to God that, perhaps like Francis of Assisi or even like Jesus himself, she challenges many of our deepest assumptions about what a life can be.

While Hildebrandt, Niemöller, and Jacobi were thinking about how to defeat Müller, Bonhoeffer was thinking about God's highest call, about the call of discipleship and its cost.

Relatively few people should start companies.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'

Every champion on his way to the top had to take out a legend, and the legend I want to take out is 'Rampage.'

In hockey, it was a freak show. I'm the son of actors and from California, and in Canada, hockey is a religion, so me coming in, it was like, 'Who the hell is this guy?' I just had to put my head down and work really hard, and it was difficult, but it made me who I am and gave me a backbone.

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

Perhaps all life was like that--dull and then a heroic flurry at the end.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Oh, go away,' I said. 'Go to your Third Force and York Harding and the Role of Democracy. Go away and play with plastics.' Later I had to admit that he had carried out my instructions to the letter.