Top 200 Challenges Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.”

— Kobe Bryant

102. “I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you’ve never behaved.”

— Eric Thomas

103. “When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”

— Steve Jobs

104. “To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.”

— Eric Thomas

105. “Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”

— William T. Sherman

106. “I accept any challenge.”

— Jennifer Hudson

107. “Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

108. “Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”

— Nicholas Sparks

109. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.”

— Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

110. “It’s not really that much big of a deal – you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.”

— Conor McGregor

111. “Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

112. “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

— G. Michael Hopf

113. “Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”

— Abdul Kalam

114. “When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

115. “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

— E.E. Cummings

116. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

117. “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

— Paulo Coelho

118. “It’s always too early to quit.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

119. “Try and fail, but never fail to try!”

— Jared Leto

120. “The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.”

— Jim Rohn

121. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

122. “Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.”

— Lil Wayne

123. “If you risk nothing, you gain nothing.”

— Bear Grylls

124. “I rebel; therefore I exist.”

— Albert Camus

125. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

— John F. Kennedy

126. “It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

127. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”

— Ernest Hemingway

128. “It’s the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

129. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

— Barack Obama

130. “A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

131. “I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it.”

— Richard Branson

132. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

— Christopher Reeve

133. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”

— Zig Ziglar

134. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

— Peter Marshall

135. “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

136. “You can always do more than you think you can.”

— John Wooden

137. “If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing it, usually you can’t achieve it.”

— David Goggins

138. “The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

139. “I don’t just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.”

— Kobe Bryant

140. “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”

— Nelson Mandela

141. “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”

— Vincent van Gogh

142. “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

— George Orwell

143. “All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.”

— Jim Morrison

144. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

— Desmond Tutu

145. “The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.”

— Arnold Palmer

146. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

147. “Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it’s common sense.”

— Ronald Reagan

148. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

149. “I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”

— Robert H. Schuller

150. “The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”

— Voltaire