"Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have."
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"You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge."
"My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'."
"It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again."
"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves."
"Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change."
"I don't think there'll ever be a challenge in your life if you don't try out something because you're scared. I think you just need to do it without any thoughts."
"Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common."
"At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them"
"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination."
"The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind."
"Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through."
"The significance is that it is my challenge; it gets me out of the door every morning and it is good for my physical and mental health which I can monitor on a daily basis."
"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."
"Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment."
"A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day."
"Shocking is easy. Shockingly brilliant, a bit more challenging."
"I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship."
"Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse."
"Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives."