Challenges Quotes - Page 38

• I was raised to face any challenge.

  Louis Zamperini

  Faces, Raised

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• You have a steady fella?” Sam asked after a bit. “No fella can hold me for long.” Sam gave her a sideways glance. “That a challenge?” “No. A statement of fact.

  Libba Bray

  Long, Facts, Sideways

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• Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.

  Junot Diaz

  Honesty, Love Is, Demand

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• Life is a challenge, we must take it.

  Mother Teresa

  Life Is

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• And why not?” “You know why! This is a bad idea.” “Perhaps I like a challenge.” “Perhaps you’re a glutton for punishment!” “Perhaps I am in love.

  Karen Chance

  Punishment, Ideas, Why Not

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.43, Penguin

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• I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

  David Levithan

  Perseverance, Way, Humans

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.52, Egmont UK

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• All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Years, Spy

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

  Josh Lanyon

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome of it and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Finding Yourself, May, Want

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless.

  Susan Cain

  Trying, Energy, Care

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• I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

  Sarah Dessen

  Ifs

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.227, Penguin

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• What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Book, Prose Poetry

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.44, Penguin

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• Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror.

  Rick Riordan

  Mirrors, Expression, Worry

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• Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.163, Bantam

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• Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Growth, Brain, Connections

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.53, Random House

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• Even though I knew she wasn't going to jump, seeing her standing on the ledge made me realize that I want and need her in my life forever. She challenges me, pushes me, and pisses me off, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Forever, Needs, Ledges

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• The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Distinguished, Higher

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.196, Vintage

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• I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.

  Alethea Kontis

  Pain, Years, Joy

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• Only those who never step, never stumble.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Steps, Chance

  Richard Paul Evans (2011). “Lost December: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Risk, Lounging, Difficulty

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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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