Top 200 Challenges Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”

— Robert Strauss

52. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

— William Shakespeare

53. “The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it.”

— Brian Tracy

54. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

55. “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”

— Sun Tzu

56. “I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!”

— Eric Thomas

57. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

— Joseph Campbell

58. “Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.”

— Casey Neistat

59. “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.”

— Jillian Michaels

60. “It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.”

— David Goggins

61. “Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”

— Ben Carson

62. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

— Desmond Tutu

63. “The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.”

— Max Levchin

64. “Everything is hard before it is easy.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

65. “It’s always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.”

— Joel Osteen

66. “One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.”

— Henry Ford

67. “Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.”

— Paul Graham

68. “When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”

— Napoleon Hill

69. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

70. “In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”

— Carol S. Dweck

71. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”

— Michael Jordan

72. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

— Dale Carnegie

73. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

— Dolly Parton

74. “I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.”

— Joel Osteen

75. “Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

— Ben Carson

76. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

77. “When I started SpaceX I thought that the most likely outcome was failure. And I think to have any other expectation would have been irrational.”

— Elon Musk

78. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

79. “Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.”

— Abdul Kalam

80. “It hurts now, but one day it will be your warm up.”

— Anonymous

81. “Fortune favours the brave.”

— Latin proverb

82. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

— Charles Dickens

83. “Challenge everything, assume nothing.”

— Sergio Zyman

84. “Failure is an option. It’s what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can’t sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.”

— David Goggins

85. “The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.”

— Stephen Richards

86. “Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.”

— Lindsay Manseau

87. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

88. “Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges make you grow.”

— Manny Pacquiao

89. “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

— Nikola Tesla

90. “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”

— John F. Kennedy

91. “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

92. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

— Rumi

93. “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

94. “Every setback is a setup for a comeback!”

— Joel Osteen

95. “The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.”

— Marianne Williamson

96. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

97. “If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn’t have an opportunity.”

— Bob Parsons

98. “Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.”

— Tony Robbins

99. “All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.”

— Alan Cohen

100. “Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.”

— Yasmin Mogahed