Quotes on Challenges

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

The challenge of life is to learn how to love

So how do you best respond when mental or emotional challenges confront you or those you love? Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend. ... Never, ever doubt that, and never harden your heart.

The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!

Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.