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Challenge Quotes


"I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school."


"I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment."


"I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill."


"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."


"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."


"It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously."


"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."


"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."


"South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge."


"I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by."


"It's getting the right person that's the challenge."


"Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer."


"Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person."


"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard."


"I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more."


"But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens."


"No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?"


"Everything new requires determination and courage from a person."


"For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines."


"Sometimes, God's silence is a challenge for us to act."


"To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge."


"The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS."


"And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge."


"The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers."


"If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don't participate, you are already a loser."


"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."


"I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court."


"I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge."


"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."


"In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper."


"Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis."


"I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone."
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