Quotes about Challenge

How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

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

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.