Big Challenges Quotes

• Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

  Roger Crawford

  Encouraging, Optimistic, Adversity

  73 Copy quote

• The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

  103 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Devil and Miss Prym”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  Randy Pausch

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

  28 Copy quote

• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Change, Meaningful

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 27, 2017

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Wall, Inspirational Life

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.71, Hachette UK

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

  Bernie Mac

  Motivational, Challenges, Bigs

  Bernie Mac (2009). “Maybe You Never Cry Again”, p.25, Harper Collins

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

  Robert Redford

  Success, Generations, World

  59 Copy quote

• Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Light, Challenges, Lessons

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.17, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

  Jan de Bont

  Challenges, Film, Bigs

  7 Copy quote

• I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.

  Rainn Wilson

  Communication, Thinking, Self

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

  Clay Shirky

  Challenges, Done, Internet

  "Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform - the numbers don't add up'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Diversity, Challenges

  6 Copy quote

• I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Challenges, Fit

  "Richard Branson: Interview With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

  Rian Johnson

  People, Challenges, Monkeys

  "Rian Johnson on his sci-fi film 'Looper'" by Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. September 24, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.

  Chris Pratt

  People, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

  Garry Kasparov

  Challenges, Bigs

  "The Endgame". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2005.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Nice, People, Challenges

  4 Copy quote

• I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.

  Barack Obama

  School, Thinking, Skills

  "After the Great Recession". www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Moving, Men, Talking

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Jobs, School, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each shooting day is a big challenge, but it's also fun.

  Baran Odar

  Fun, Challenges, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump will lead a unified Republican government. And we will work hand-in- hand on a positive agenda to tackle America's big challenges.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Hands, America

  "How'd He Do It?". www.wsj.com. November 14, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source