Top 200 Challenges Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Don’t limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.”

— Tony Robbins

2. “Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Personality Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

3. “Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Friday Inspirational Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

4. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Life Lessons Quotes, Effort Quotes, Quality Quotes

5. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Change Quotes

6. “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

7. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Recovery Quotes

8. “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

9. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Courage Quotes, Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

10. “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Leadership Quotes

11. “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Inspirational Life Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

12. “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Life Philosophy Quotes

13. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Growth Quotes

14. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength

15. “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Deep Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Quotes About Trying

16. “My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

17. “We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

18. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

19. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

20. “A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

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21. “Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Life Quotes, Resilience Quotes

22. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Moving On Quotes

23. “The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”

— Ryan Holiday

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Resilience Quotes

24. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”

— Edmund Hillary

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Reflection Quotes

25. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Optimism Quotes, Resilience Quotes

26. “Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Strong Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

27. “The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It’s not easy. But absolutely worth it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Short Quotes About Life

28. “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Quotes About Hope

29. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

30. “I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Learning Quotes, Famous Quotes

31. “The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Blessing Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Moving Quotes

32. “You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Poetry Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

33. “First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Overcoming Fear Quotes, History Quotes, Government Quotes

34. “There’s nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Sports Quotes

35. “What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Adversity Quotes

36. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

37. “In a day when you don’t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are traveling on the wrong path.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Life Lessons Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

38. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Failure Quotes

39. “Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Action Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

40. “It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Impact Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

41. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Hard Work Quotes, Willpower Quotes

42. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”

— Andy Rooney

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Business Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Short Quotes About Life

43. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

— Kenji Miyazawa

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Pain Quotes

44. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”

— Fred DeVito

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Growth Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

45. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Quality Quotes

46. “Courage is grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men

47. “I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Determination Quotes

48. “Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

49. “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

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Passion Quotes

50. “Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”

— Elon Musk

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Depressing Quotes