Challenges Quotes - Page 23

Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

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.

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others.

Your present challenges or limitations cannot stop you from becoming what God has ordained you to be.

We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

I always expect unexpected challenges.

Our challenge is not getting the Lord to speak to us; our challenge is understanding what He has to say.

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered in His will, when you ask to be led by the Spirit to do His will, you are assured of the greatest happiness along the way and the most fulfilling attainment from this mortal experience. If you question everything you are asked to do, or dig in your heels at every unpleasant challenge, you make it harder for the Lord to bless you.

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

You have to be open, and being open is a daily challenge, I think.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.

Keep training harder and always challenge yourself.

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to be lived with eager expectation of its goodness, not in dread of its challenges.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.