Quotes about Challenge

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

With darts it's just one against one, it's blow for blow. The only thing I could compare it to is boxing. It's dead exciting. You're reacting to each other, the adrenaline's pumping. You don't feel calm at all. But it's all about being able to win when you're pumped up. People say you don't play the player; I play the player every time.

Pick the one thing that you've really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious impossible which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

Life...is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.

In moments of decision, we are to try to make what seems to be the most loving, the most creative decision. We are not to play safe, to draw back out of fear. Love may well lead us into danger. It may lead us to die for our friend. In a day when we are taught to look for easy solutions, it is not always easy to hold on to that most difficult one of all, love.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

One does not become strong lifting feathers.

One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters.