Challenge Quotes

"When a person’s entire being is stretched in the effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile, it is impossible for the ordinary problems of life to seem important" "Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain" "Only when a person’s skills are fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just about manageable, so that one forgets everything else, does the activity become effortless and spontaneous" "The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in" "It feels good to try, but playing it safe might be smart." "You have to be willing to suffer in order to grow" "Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits" "There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction" "The only easy day was yesterday" "If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone" "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced " "The true test of a warrior is not how he acts in times of comfort, but how he responds in times of adversity." "If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." "Being willing to give up some of the good to develop what can be great is the hardest betrayal we have to endure " "You have to go to places where you really hurt, really uncomfortable, really painful, really suffering, to find where your true strength is." "The only way to grow is to drown in your own failures." "If you’ve never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?" "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world." "All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare" "Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them"