Challenging Quotes
703 quotes by 639 authors
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Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by…
— Regina Brett
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We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.
— Helen Fisher
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The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
— Greg Graffin
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You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
— Edmund Hillary
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a…
— Daniel Handler
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The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into…
— Anna Quindlen
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I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in…
— Ann Coulter
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It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric,…
— Laura Schlessinger
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Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a…
— Julia Glass
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
— Abbie Hoffman
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The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may…
— Maya Angelou
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We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in…
— H.G. Wells
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Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin…
— Dale Carnegie
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I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I…
— John Connolly
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I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the…
— Philippa Gregory
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Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is…
— Saul Alinsky
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I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully)…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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