Quotes & Sayings About Accepting Challenges

Don't carry the world around or your history around like a burden. In fact, don't carry it around at all. One step at a time. — Art Hochberg

Accepting new challenges makes me come alive. — Jake T. Austin

In a word, the Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him. — Booker T. Washington

You have to believe in yourself even when others don't, or you won't achieve anything. — Billy Idol

I accept any challenge, so challenge me — Shane Koyczan

Two thousand years after Jesus lived here, Christians still have a hard time accepting his upside-down world, in which we are expected to work for justice on behalf of others but not to demand or expect it for ourselves (Matthew 5:6,10-12). This is one of the hardest challenges of Jesus' message. It demands an expanded heart and mind. — Richard Rohr

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. — Bette Davis

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent. — Wendy Mogel

Difficult missions will bring difficult challenges which may sometimes produce temporary setbacks. The test of a human being is in accepting the failure and going on trying until he or she succeeds. Managing failure is the essence of leadership. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it. — Sachin Tendulkar

That was one thing about the Deaf community I always admired beyond belief - they were the most accepting lot I'd ever come across. It didn't matter what else you had to deal with, blindness, mental challenges, fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, whatever else you were dealing with, if you were culturally Deaf, they accepted you as one of their own. Even, apparently, if you had supernatural sight. — Darynda Jones

Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate. — Sue Monk Kidd

Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution. — Jewel

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change. — Edmund Phelps

One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those countries have particular values like equality of all people before the law. Islam does not accept people are equal before the law. — Mark Durie

I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that. — Jonathan Galassi

The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements. — Summer Sanders

Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available. — Richard Brown

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly. — T. B. Joshua

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart. — Raisa Gorbacheva

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. — Agnetha Faltskog

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. — Julian Bond

Reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies. — Samuel P. Huntington

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally. — Maya Angelou

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name. — Anna Nicole Smith

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed. — Timothy Keller

Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors. — Luke Evans

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it. — Phil McGraw

The two bond over their mutual lack of family ties: Saul from his disownment, Miriam from the car accident that orphaned her as a college junior. Both want children. Miriam has inherited her parents' idea of procreative legitimacy, wants to compensate for her only-child-dom. She sees in Saul the househusband who will enable her parental ambitions without disabling her autonomy. In Miriam, Saul sees the means to a book-lined study and a lifestyle conducive to mystical advancement. They are both absolutely certain these things equal love. — Myla Goldberg

One new reality is global interconnectivity and the fact that all challenges must be addressed on the basis of 'togetherness.' Thus the most crucial factor in accepting the new reality and confronting its opportunities and risks is our willingness to develop shared norms on all levels. — Klaus Schwab

By accepting or even welcoming your challenges, you create opportunities for their gifts to be revealed. — Mike Dooley