Top 200 Challenges Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”

— Ayn Rand

152. “I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”

— Maya Angelou

153. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

— Vincent van Gogh

154. “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”

— Epictetus

155. “Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

156. “The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”

— Bertrand Russell

157. “Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”

— Joyce Meyer

158. “You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don’t just follow the herd like somebody else might do.”

— Renny Harlin

159. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

— Desmond Tutu

160. “The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

161. “The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.”

— Antonio Gramsci

162. “If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

— T. S. Eliot

163. “If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.”

— Tim Ferriss

164. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

165. “Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.”

— T.D. Jakes

166. “I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.”

— Napoleon Hill

167. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

— Kobe Bryant

168. “If I fail, I try again, and again, and again.”

— Nick Vujicic

169. “Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

170. “If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, “How would Jesus handle this?” Then go and do the same.”

— David Jeremiah

171. “The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

172. “If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”

— Hayley Williams

173. “You will always grow through – what you go through.”

— Tyrese Gibson

174. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”

— Michael Jackson

175. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

— John Wayne

176. “The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph.”

— Nick Vujicic

177. “Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.”

— Ron Paul

178. “We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today, climate change, into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.”

— Ban Ki-Moon

179. “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

— Kurt Cobain

180. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

181. “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.”

— Frank Sinatra

182. “I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.”

— Yann Martel

183. “From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body. I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done, so the challenge appealed to me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

184. “No matter how hard life is, don’t lose hope.”

— Zayn Malik

185. “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

186. “Listen to me, even when you lose, it’s OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it’s got to hurt.”

— Eric Thomas

187. “If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.”

— Brené Brown

188. “Lean into the discomfort of the work.”

— Brené Brown

189. “Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.”

— Ratan Tata

190. “The only limit is the one you set yourself.”

— Felix Baumgartner

191. “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

— Paulo Coelho

192. “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”

— Jim Watkins

193. “Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it – and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.”

— Wilma Mankiller

194. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

— Walter Bagehot

195. “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”

— Neil Gaiman

196. “All things are difficult before they are easy.”

— Thomas Fuller

197. “Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

198. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

199. “If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it If all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it; If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it; If you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern for tenacity; If neither cold or poverty, famish or gout, sickness or pain of body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want; If dogged and grim you be size and beget it, with the help of GOD you will get it.”

— Berton Braley

200. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”

— Jim Rohn