Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iyanla Vanzant

Wherever your gift is, that's where it's going to be your greatest challenge.

Iyanla Vanzant

Faith without challenge is nothing.

Iyanla Vanzant

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.

William Shakespeare

If I thought he'd been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.

Jerry Bridges

We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

I challenged them all week in practice. Our defense played really well. They made tackles, and we hadn't been doing that.

James Ellis

I challenged the kids to come out of halftime with a defensive stand. Holding them to two points in the third is what put away the game for us.

I challenged out team as a whole, and maybe we did a gut-check on our manhood so to speak. But basically, the majority of the halftime was spent with the defensive adjustments. And fortunately, the adjustments paid off for us.

I challenged our starters to set the tempo early. I thought our starters one through five stepped up and played well tonight.

I challenged our big guys to step up. I was glad to see Tony respond tonight.

I challenged him a little bit. I told him he's been good, but he hasn't been special. The first thing he said to me after the game was, 'Coach, was I special tonight?' And I had to say yes.

I challenged him after yesterday. Yesterday, he did not come out ready to play and today he was dominating. He showed what he could do.

I challenged (Finch) at halftime ? I challenged all of them at halftime ? but I think I made her mad. Sometimes that's good.

Steve Alford

I challenged Bru as much as I have ever challenged him at halftime. A first team all-league choice doesn't come in at the half with no rebounds and no field goals. He responded.

Melissa McCarthy

I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that.

Sidney Crosby

I feel comfortable, ... I'm definitely feeling challenged but with each day I gain more experience. I'm just trying to improve each day.

I don't think we could have lost and still been in (the district race), so it was crucial. We've had some crazy results this season, but I challenged some players and I think the whole team responded.

David Blunkett

How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

Columbus East has a lot of very good players, and it will be a challenge (to keep) them down in scoring. They do a nice job of mixing the defense, and that will present a challenge for our offense.

I am moved by this story because I know what a great challenge it is to be the parent of a child with special needs.

Our guys understand the challenge we have and it's a good football team that we are going to play. This is a good football team that is starting to put it together. Just as we have been a work in progress, they have also been a work in progress.

Our challenge is to put them back to work at no less than 85 percent of their salary.

Our volunteers are the heart of the program. Many have been helping for years. They enjoy the challenges of tax preparation and they're dedicated to helping in their communities.

Catherine Asaro

The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.

Ed Rendell

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

We had a tougher schedule. We challenged all those teams and that does play a difference. ... Those teams prepare you.

Today we challenged them to be more aggressive. They did a better job today.

Jamal Crawford

We didn't really talk about it. But any great leader is going to challenge his troops, so we took it as a challenge. We think we do have the makeup, so we're going to go out there and hopefully the wins can show that we have that makeup.

David A. Bednar

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

The pro-life community in Mississippi would love to be the first state to end abortions in the United States. We don't know that the current Supreme Court is up to meet the challenge of overturning Roe v. Wade.

We need to have more than David and Allan scoring for us. It's a very positive sign. We have challenged the other guys to step up. If we are going to have a shot at anything, we will need more than two (scorers).

We were sleepwalking for a while, but we got after the team at halftime and challenged them. They responded. We played some great defense.

Aaron Rodgers

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.