challenge quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
27
"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over."
78
"..you must meet any boredom head-on and not try to avoid or repress it. Throughout your life you will encounter tedious situations, and you must cultivate the ability to handle them with discipline."
139
"The way I looked at it, I was born in hell and every time I won a fight, that was one step out of it."
145
"Boldness and hesitation elicit very different psychological responses in their targets: Hesitation puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them."
157
"Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome."
367
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
368
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
410
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
417
"Adversity builds men. It is your duty to challenge yourself and craft your own world."
849
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
922
"The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life."
978
"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."
1035
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
1048
"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."
1089
"Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process. The pain is a kind of challenge your mind presents- will you lean how to focus and move past the boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?"
138
"The only true disability is the inability to accept challenges."
413
"The wise man sees his difficulties as a challenge and not as a stumbling block."
414