Quotes about Challenge

I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

If you do not want an average life, you must be on guard against, and quietly suspicious of, conclusions made by conventional thinking.

Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

I've got to be willing to enter into and do battle with the confusion in order to reach the victory on the other side. It's like, I am here, confusion is in front of me, and just beyond confusion waits the answer or skill I need to take my life in a new and incredible direction.

Adversity is preparation for greatness.

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

In times of adversity, you don't have a problem to deal with; you have a choice to make.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

You can't lead without taking risk. You won't take risk without courage. Courage is essential to leadership.