Challenges Quotes - Page 19

• A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Opportunity, Thinking, Levels

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• Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Judging, Events, Development

  Kazuo Ishiguro (1989). “The Remains of the Day”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Thinking, People, Too Much

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• We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Believe, Light

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 15, 2015

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• What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Maya Angelou (1993). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, Random House Canada

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• If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Jobs, Adventure

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• In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Men, One Day

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• It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.

  Helen Fielding

  Morning, Teenage, Lying

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Compassion, Light

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• Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle." "Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was. "What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?" "Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly. Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?" Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.

  Rachel Vincent

  Girlfriend, Brother, Hero

  Rachel Vincent (2014). “Soul Screamers: Volume 4”, p.33, Harlequin

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• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Crush

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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• Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fall, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”

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• It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.

  Susane Colasanti

  Unhappy, Tests, Too Much

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• How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Achievement, Growing, Aging

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• I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, True Love, Sorry

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• ... for every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges.

  Nick Vujicic

  Blessed, Overcoming, Disability

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.12, WaterBrook

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• For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Moving, Loss, Grieving

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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• Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

  David O. McKay

  Inspirational, Positive, Purpose

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

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• It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

  Jim Abbott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• China has really succeeded because of its stability.
  So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changing economic situation.
  I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth.
  If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.

  Bernard Arnault

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.

  Maureen Johnson

  Long, Criticism, Firsts

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.41, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Jobs, Powerful

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