Challenges Quotes - Page 8

• Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

  Seth Godin

  Passion, Mean, People

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.82, Penguin

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• Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Deeds, Quitting

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• The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Problem, Insurmountable

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• Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

  Eckhart Tolle

  Worry, Purpose, Stress And Anxiety

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• While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Book, Twists, Tests

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• A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Men, Somewhere Else

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived

  Pat Barker

  Running, War, Believe

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• You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.

  Holly Black

  Heart, Winning, Sound

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Adventure, Dark, Issues

  "Hayek on a Society Based on Freedom" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. August 08, 2007.

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• ..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

  Bell Hooks

  Way

  Bell Hooks (2009). “Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies”, p.12, Routledge

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• Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Confidence, Insecure, Self

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.67, Vintage

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• So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won't help me out when I can't remember a street name. The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Morning, Moving

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• being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.

  Simone Elkeles

  Take A Chance, Chances Are, Being Afraid

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Leaving Paradise”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is the best or right way of life, the best or right religion, political or economic value, morality?" To the questioner, nothing is sacred. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

  Saul Alinsky

  Ideas, Economic Value, Political

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• Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?" His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?" "Yes it is.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Boys, Yellow

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• The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fear, Voice, Female

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.55, PublicAffairs

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• Then shut up or grab a sword and come help. (Takeshi) Is that a challenge? (Savitar) It would be if I didn’t know for a fact that you’re too lazy to rise to one. (Takeshi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lazy, Would Be, Facts

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• All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Race, Ethnicity

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• I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

  Wilma Mankiller

  Thinking, Long, Way

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• Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

  Stephen Covey

  Decision, Mind, Vision

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• Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hate, War, Winning

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5204, NYU Press

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• But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Order, Comfort, World

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.55, A&C Black

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• Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

  Bede Griffiths

  Atheist, Rejection, Atheism

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• What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it was exclusive and capricious? The souls offered love and acceptance to all. Did I crave a greater challenge?...Or was it simply better somehow? Because these humans hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Hate, Heart

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• I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Life, Happiness

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