The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.
~By Benny Green ~
I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.
~By Rowan Williams ~
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.
~By Dick Butkus ~
The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.
~By Richard E. Grant ~
I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge.
~By Michael Ritchie ~
I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.
~By John C. Reilly ~
You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.
~By Jerry Kleczka ~
Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.
~By David E. Price ~
I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Crises are challenges, not calamities.
~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
~By Herman Wouk ~
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.
~By Michael Crapo ~
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
~By Edmund White ~
The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
~By Steve Forbes ~
It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
~By Dakota Fanning ~
I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
~By Alberto Salazar ~
I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?
~By Hal Linden ~
The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.
~By Debbie Allen ~
If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.
~By Chuck Zito ~
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.
~By Richard E. Grant ~
America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.
~By Christopher Bond ~
This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
~By Joyce A. Myers ~
My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.
~By Regina King ~
I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.
~By Paul Ryan ~
So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.
~By Lucy Lawless ~
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
~By Peter Drucker ~
If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
Are we simply romantically challenged, or are we sluts?
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
~By Bill Owens ~
Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.
~By John Hoeven ~
I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
~By James Franco ~
Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
~By Bill Frist ~
I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
~By Earl Hines ~
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
~By Robert Toombs ~
I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful.
~By Sarah Brightman ~
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
~By Vin Scully ~
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.
~By Howard Baker ~
Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.
~By Michael P. Anderson ~
To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.
~By Michael Finley ~
The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.
~By Robert Rodriguez ~
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
~By Wayne Allard ~
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
~By Billy Sunday ~
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.
~By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ~
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
~By Wietse Venema ~
The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.
~By Joe Morton ~
And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
~By Ed Miliband ~
With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
~By Gale Norton ~
So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.
~By Dinah Sheridan ~
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
~By Harrison Ford ~
One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.
~By Birch Bayh ~
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
~By Marcel Proust ~
I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.
~By Charlize Theron ~
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.
~By Martin Henderson ~
Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
~By Colin Powell ~
Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
~By Jimmy Smith ~
Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?
~By Erno Rubik ~
My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.
~By James H. Douglas ~
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
~By Cicely Tyson ~
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
~By Marc Morial ~
I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
~By Wallis Simpson ~
I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
~By Davy Jones ~
Differences challenge assumptions.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.
~By Henry Kravis ~
I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.
~By Jewel ~
Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.
~By Julie Bishop ~
The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
~By Carl Lewis ~
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
~By Esther Dyson ~
I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
~By Rita Coolidge ~
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