Best Challenged Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I feel like it's a real privilege to like what I do and feel challenged by what I do and just want to keep working, keep learning.”

“People's perspectives need to be challenged, and if I'm able to help change people's idea of what it means to be a female and play basketball, then, shoot, I want to by all means.”

“When we talk of identity, we often think of groups such as black Muslim lesbians in wheelchairs. This is because identity only seems to become an issue when it is challenged or under threat.”

“I decided to join the Challenged Athletes Foundation's cycling tour from San Francisco to San Diego, a fundraiser to help veterans and others with physical disabilities find renewed purpose through sports. The journey revealed why we must invest not only in stronger communities, but also stronger ties with each other.”

“As an NBA fan, there is nothing more irritating than when the league's credibility is challenged by cockamamy conspiracy theories.”

“I feel like I am constantly getting challenged by every song I sing because I'm not that lucky girl who sings 100 similar songs and becomes famous.”

“When I was in the UFC I challenged some of the biggest guys in the world. When I was fighting in Europe I did the same.”

“I like having the radio on, that way you're challenged to listen to things that aren't your choice.”

“Coronavirus has challenged daily life in Britain in a way not seen for generations.”

“I've always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren't constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.”

“For growth, I need to be challenged and excited about the project. I need to venture out into unknown territories.”

“If you don't get challenged, then you can't find out how good you are.”

“I was fortunate to have many teachers who encouraged me - one of the first was Dianne Derrick, my 5th grade teacher at Woodbury Elementary. She challenged us to write creatively and praised my work, but most importantly, she treated writing like it was important.”

“We will all be challenged with finding the leader within each of us so that we can fight to protect the victories we've won and the communities who will need our protection.”

“Anyone who knows me knows I'm geographically challenged.”

“I wasn't feeling challenged. I needed to walk away and unlearn and relearn everything.”

“I feel like when people see me locking in on defense, it kind of challenged everybody else to do the same thing.”

“I've had enough off-screen romances and now I'm happy being socially and emotionally challenged, on and off camera.”

“As an actor I like to be challenged all the time.”

“I like to be challenged.”

“Once you achieve a goal and you are on that high, you have to consciously pull yourself in to say, 'I need to have the same hunger and desire as when I had nothing.' That's the hardest thing to do in life. That is getting challenged every single day once you win titles.”

“I've been basically challenged my whole life.”

“It's amazing: when you are challenged with less, sometimes you can produce more.”

“I am going to lose my fanbase and say that Jonathan Franzen's 'Crossroads' is very good. One of my favourite writers is Elena Ferrante and knowing that Franzen was challenged by Ferrante and sees 'Crossroads' as his 'My Brilliant Friend,' this great writer rising to the challenge, it's really exciting.”

“I just challenged myself to get back in the gym, keep working - seeing where I can get my shots. A lot of mid-range, a lot of finishing and I wanted to get better with my three because if I get better at my three then they gotta close out on me and then I'm playing into my strengths.”

“I need to be challenged so I can get better.”

“No politician wants to be challenged. They all say they want to be, but we all want to be anointed.”

“You see who the real people are when they're challenged.”

“I continue to take inspiration from John Locke, John Stuart Mill and those more recent freedom fighters of the 1960s who challenged conformism and repression.”

“I was very green when I started on 'General Hospital' and it really challenged me. There were times I began to doubt myself a lot.”

“Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.”

“Sometimes I look at myself and think: have I been too hard in terms of pushing and challenging the players? But I only think about that for five minutes and then I say I am doing okay because they need to be pushed and challenged.”

“I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.”

“I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you do have to be realistic that your body won't be able to keep up forever.”

“I do not want to work to stay busy. I want to feel excited and challenged with each character that I portray on-screen.”

“One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.”

“Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.”

“I have successfully challenged the Western world's existing model of pharmaceutical innovation, which leads to the creation of monopolistic markets for novel, life-saving drugs that deliver high margins at low volumes.”

“For so long, the fashion industry has designed almost exclusively for a particular woman with particular measurements, and they've never really been challenged on it. We're all consumers, yet we're rarely given a voice within this industry that dictates what we wear.”

“President Trump, when challenged on facts, says that many people feel the way he does. But feelings should not take the place of reason in matters of public policy.”

“As a director, just to be able to jump in to do something that's different, and to explore comedy and be challenged by that, is great. Some directors never get that opportunity.”

“If men were meant to be a dominant power, men would be on this earth by themselves. So, I don't understand when women's rights are challenged - because you're talking about human rights. You talk about subjugating an entire culture that we heavily depend on for everything we need for survival.”

“I love being challenged and defending my positions and, when I'm wrong, learning from the exchange. It makes me smarter and better as a businessperson.”

“I'm at a place where I want to have fun. I want to be challenged. I want to love the people I work with and continue to appreciate being in the position to work and play and explore.”

“There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.”

“The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.”

“I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.”

“People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think.”

“I loved to be challenged as a leader. I do not want to be told 'yes.' I want to be told 'no.'”

“Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious.”

“If you are really challenged, and if you are willing to take the plunge, very often some of the path opens up in front of you.”

“I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.”

“The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are left shorn of the sweet roots that have held us to the earth, challenged to imagine what is truly present just before us, a unified and seemingly limitless universe.”

“When I'm challenged, I grow. I never want to be in a situation where I'm not challenged and not afraid. One of my favorite feelings is stepping into a film and knowing that I'm a little bit afraid of what I have to accomplish.”

“There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.”

“I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn't being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.”

“Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.”

“We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.”

“I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.”

“I'm always challenged by someone.”

“I try consciously to keep myself entertained and challenged to not repeat myself at all. Like, when I start a new book, my goal is to pretty much throw out what I've done and try something completely different that I think initially I cannot do.”

“You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the character - especially with a TV show, because you know you could be doing it for a long time, so you want to make sure it's something you really enjoy.”

“Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.”

“I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.”

“There have been so many times when I challenged Republicans on air - in big moments.”

“I think that it's important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it's a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do.”

“Our economic, civil, and constitutional rights are being challenged and, frankly, they are being lost.”

“The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.”

“I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.”

“I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.”

“The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.”

“Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.”

“I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.”

“I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun.”

“I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.”

“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.”

“People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.”

“When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.”

“To grow, people need to be challenged.”

“I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.”

“Some people are physically or mentally challenged. I'm emotionally challenged!”

“When those with wealth and power fear that their privilege is even mildly challenged, they invariably clothe themselves in the garbs of victimhood.”

“With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.”

“Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.”

“I like this job. I like doing it. It's good to be challenged like that.”

“The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged.”

“The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is a really difficult skill. It's something every theater actor and every theater maker is challenged with.”

“I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, because I learn from being challenged.”

“We need a routine to stay challenged - even if you are not working, don't treat every day as Saturday and Sunday.”

“As a child, my father taught me to never take my freedoms for granted. He challenged me to fight for what is right.”

“Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.”

“I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.”

“There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.”

“You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.”

“For me, anything that you take on, you want to be challenged. That's what makes the job exciting.”

“Playing against older and really experienced players really challenged me.”

“Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.”

“I actually tried replying to what I thought were some unfair comments on the Internet once or twice, and I never heard back. What seems to happen with some people is they're very much interested in voicing their own opinions, but not in having them challenged.”

“I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.”

“We have been challenged by COVID-19, but Americans are never victims.”