Face a challenge and find joy
in the capacity to meet it.

Ayn Rand
   

Every result you get in your life is the combination of the
challenge you receive from the reality around you
and your capacity to respond to that challenge.

Fred Kofman
   

The ultimate measure of a person is not where he or she stands
in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he or
she stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
   

It’s been a tough year. . . Someone
said I should send out Buddhist
thank-you cards since Buddhists
believe that anything that
challenges you makes you
pull yourself together.

Robin Williams
  

As we rise to meet the challenges
that are a natural part of living,
we awaken to our many
undiscovered gifts, to our inner
power and our purpose.

Susan L. Taylor

   

I've often thought that when something is hard for you,
whether it's going to law school or anything else that
challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

Hillary Rodham Clinton
   

   

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small.
Because how you start is how you finish.

Bernie Mac
  
Challenges make you discover things about yourself
that you never really knew.  They're what makes the
instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm.

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There are no laurels in life. . . just new challenges.

Katharine Hepburn

Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempests.

Epicurus
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you;
they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson

The most rewarding things you do in life are often
the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Arnold Palmer
   
Opposition is a natural part of life.  Just as we develop
our physical muscles through overcoming opposition--such
as lifting weights--we develop our character muscles
by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Stephen R Covey
   
   

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one
you are trying to master and you will develop the
powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.

William Bennett
   
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton
  

   

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from
the things that don't work out; that's when I've really learned.

Carol Burnett
  
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth.
Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Noela Evans
   

Above all, challenge yourself.  You may well surprise yourself
at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.

Cecile M. Springer
   

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to
shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find
individually fulfilling, then we can have no security:  we will
live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined
by the will of others, in which we will be constantly
buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

Nena O'Neil
   
   

There is no Challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself.

Michael F. Staley

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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you;
they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon
 

There are no great people in this world, only great
challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

William Frederick Halsy, Jr.
 

To be successful you must accept all challenges that
come your way.  You can't accept just the ones you like.

Mike Gafka
  
Challenges are what make life interesting;
overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine
  

 

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility
of becoming.  You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit
to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Jim Rohn
 
Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge.
Warriors cannot complain or regret anything.  Their lives are
an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be
good or bad.  Challenges are simply challenges.

Carlos Castaneda