“I'm all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it, great. If I don't, I can live with myself.” IfsI CanEndsChallengesSeeingAchieveThe End Of The DayBad Day Author:Michael Jordan
“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.” ShouldYearsCountrySeemsSchoolHumanityDifficultChallengesAchieveCrimeBuddhismPoliticianRatePaceShould IGoverningSchool SystemCrime RatesSymbiosis Author:Frederick Lenz
“Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we succeed. Those that maintain faith, stay committed, follow through and keep moving forward are the few that achieve everything they want in life. Be one of the few.” ThinkingWantRememberMovingLife IsChallengesAchieveSucceedOvercomingSeriesExtraordinaryCommittedQuittingMoving ForwardAccomplishmentKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardDiscouragingFollow ThroughThinking Differently Author:Hal Elrod
“Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.” KnowsRealActionFacesSufferingFightingChallengesJusticeResultsStruggleAchieveInjusticeAvailableServantOfficialsOur ActionsInactionPublic ServantsElected Officials Author:Hilda Solis
“Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life...and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive.” MomentsGoalChallengesFocusAchieveHealthyObstaclesSetting GoalsRise AboveHealthy LifeChallenge Yourself Author:Robert H. Goddard
“I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.” TryingPersonsGoalChallengesAchieveSomething NewBreakthroughNew ChallengesNew GoalCompetitive Person Author:Hilary Swank
“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.” NeedsHumansHandsPastChoicesIndividualChallengesCreativityNovelCreativeTeacherAchieveBuildingMajorsModelsCommitmentInnovationInsightInquiryContinuityLearnersCollaboratorsHuman KnowledgeCreative Life Author:Vera John-Steiner
“In every life there is a challenge. For every challenge that I take on, if I follow through, I accomplish. When I have accomplished, then I have achieved. If I achieve, than I can proudly say I did my job well.” IfsWellsI CanMotivationalJobsChallengesAchieveAccomplishAccomplishedFollow Through Author:Erica Brown
“One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.” YearsHandsGovernmentNationsChallengesUnitedFiveAchieveKeysLessonsGreat ThingsFive YearsBroadsPartnershipI Have LearnedSecretaryPhilanthropyUnited NationsHand In HandCivil Society Author:Ban Ki-moon
“At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.” EndsSelfChallengesAbilityAchieveGreatnessPromiseOvercomingDifficultyTragedyTendenciesSelf RelianceRelianceRise AboveIndicationSabbathUnbeliefAdequacy Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.” TryingBelieveRealWisdomRealityTodayOpportunityPoliticsI BelievePresidentCommunityChallengesLeadershipDifferencesJusticeResponsibilityHistoryTechnologyViolenceGenerationsAchievePolicyConflictWeaponsSpringSolutionsEthicsProgramTestsStrategyUnityProfoundHuman RightsNuclearPeacefulIdeologyChiefsIranResolveForeign PolicyNuclear WeaponsDiplomacyCivilityCommandersComprehensiveSettlementObtainingCommander In ChiefArab Spring Author:Barack Obama
“As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such challenges. And anyway, they are not competent. After all, they are just mathematicians-what we need is paramathematicians, like you... It is you who can be the welding force, between mathematicians and stories, in order to achieve the synthesis.” NeedsHelpingStoriesScienceOrderForceChallengesToo MuchAchieveLike YouMathematicsTowersMathematicianCompetentIvorySynthesisIvory TowerWelding Author:Apostolos Doxiadis
“I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.” ChallengesGoneAchieveLowsMadStarks Author:J. K. Rowling
“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” MenInspirationalPurposeWomenGoalChallengesInspiringAchieveGreatnessOvercomingAimPerseveranceAccomplishAfrican AmericanPersistenceAccomplishmentReachingOppositionBlack WomenSetting GoalsBlack History Author:Dorothy Height
“The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.” FirstsMayMomentsStoriesUniverseGamesImaginationChallengesSpaceConsciousnessFantasyAchieveNegativeStructureMeaninglessVoidFormalCatastropheApocalypseFiniteTime And SpaceWrapsConstructive Author:J. G. Ballard
“We are not here to give challenges to anyone, but we will also not take challenges casually. Our defence mechanisms would be the best in the world. A secure India is the first requirement for the country to progress and achieve new heights.” WorldGivingFirstsCountryWould BeChallengesProgressAchieveIndiaSecureHeightBeing The BestMechanismRequirementsGovernanceDefenceDefence Mechanism Author:Narendra Modi
“I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.” ThinkingWantHumansPersonsEasyGoalChallengesHuman BeingsRichAchieveFashionDecentStayingGet RichEasy To GetAchieving Your Goals Author:Katharine Hamnett
“Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.” StatesHappensFacesOrderEnergyProcessGoalChallengesAttentionConsciousnessFocusAchieveSkillsFlowRealisticPsychicsInner LifeOptimalChallenges We FaceRealistic GoalsAchieving Happiness Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.” WantTryingLife IsChallengesAchieveFindings Author:Dominic Monaghan
“I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.” FeelsGoalChallengesAchieveHills Author:Amby Burfoot
“There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though I knew I could never achieve it. But it kept me reaching for something.” ChallengesPerfectAchievePhotographyPerfectionStriveReachingStriving For Perfection Author:Phil Stern
“I think today's young women are an especially powerful breed. They will be taking on even greater challenges, which is why achieving personal empowerment is so important for them. These women are going to be holding positions of significant authority, owning more businesses, and shaping public policy.” ThinkingImportantTodayYoungChallengesPowerfulGreaterAchievePolicyPositionAuthorityEmpowermentSignificantYoung WomenPublic PolicyPersonal Empowerment Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“I still feel young as far as motivation is concerned, and also the challenges that I have for the future and what I want to achieve. So I just hope this successful streak is extended to the fullest.” WantFeelsStillsYoungMotivationChallengesSuccessfulAchieveConcernedStreaks Author:Novak Djokovic
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” LifeInspirationalMotivationalSuccessSportsChallengesAttitudeAchievePositive ThinkingSucceedBasketballGiving UpDeterminationAthletePositivityOptimisticPositive AttitudeHard TimesBelieve In YourselfMotivational SportsEncouragingNot Giving UpInspirational SportsBad DayRoad To SuccessFear Of FailureRecipe For SuccessInsperationalSuccess And FailureBasketball PlayerSuccess FailureThink PositiveFamous BasketballWords Of EncouragementInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballMotivational Inspirational SportsBasketball MotivationGreat SportsGiving Up Is Not An OptionFailure In LifeFailure InspirationalNever SurrenderInspirational Success FailureGreatest SportsShort Motivational SportsBest AthleteLearning From FailureInspirational AthleteGreat AthleteGreat Inspirational SportsFailure MotivationalGreat Motivational SportsFear Of SuccessGreatest AthleteInspiring AthleteProfessional CareerBasketball TeamworkPast FailuresFear Of FailingBest BasketballPopular SportsInspirational WinningBasketball SuccessTrying To SucceedBasketball WinningSports CompetitionWinning BasketballBasketball Is My LifeFail To SucceedMotivate AthletesBasketball Is LifeBasketball And LifeMotivational WinningWinning MotivationalBasketball Life Author:Michael Jordan
“People at all levels and in all roles in organizations are wrestling with the challenges of modern life, trying to find ways to create harmony among the different parts of their lives while aiming to achieve their goals and live with purpose.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentPurposeGoalChallengesLevelsRolesModernAchieveOrganizationHarmonyWrestlingModern LifeLive With Purpose Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“The challenge and the goal was to get inside Owen's [Suskind] world, because I really wanted to see it through his point of view. To achieve that naturalism, I used a screen in front of a camera as I interviewed him” WorldWantedUsedGoalChallengesViewsAchieveFrontsCamerasPoint Of ViewScreensNaturalism Author:Roger Ross Williams
“Already there exists a growing international concern that Israel has become "an apartheid state" pursuing policies manifesting a "settler colonial" mentality. Such perceptions pose a challenge to postcolonial international society that will not be indefinitely ignored, especially if Palestinians achieve greater unity and tactical focus.” IfsStatesChallengesGreaterFocusGrowingAchievePolicyPerceptionConcernUnityInternationalIsraelManifestMentalityPalestinianIgnoredApartheidTacticalSettlers Author:Richard A. Falk
“Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from the examination of molecules all the way to the delivery of medicines to patients. Already in the conception and selection of research projects, companies would anticipate all the challenges down the line that they will need to overcome in order to achieve actual health impact. Bureaucratic organizations, by contrast, are notoriously bad at this sort of optimizing.” WayNeedsGovernmentOrderChallengesLinesCompanyPathAchieveProjectsResearchOrganizationOvercomingImpactMedicineComplexesPatientConceptionEfficientContrastBureaucracySelectionExaminationAnticipateDeliveryMolecules Author:Thomas Pogge
“As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives.” TryingRunningPoliticalArtistGoalChallengesRiskAchievePerspectiveCapitalismObviousCompromiseSettlingActivistNot InterestedRhetoricCritiqueAccusationElitism Author:Josephine Meckseper