Quotes for
the Journey:

Challenges



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

Bernie Mac

   

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
   
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.      -Joshua J. Marine
   

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

   

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

    

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

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.      -William Frederick Halsy, Jr.

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

There is no Challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself.      -Michael F. Staley

   

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

   
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth.   Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.     -Noela Evans
   

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

   

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.       -George S. Patton

  
   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   
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.      -unattributed
   

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

     

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
    

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

    

   
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.       -Joseph Campbell
   
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are.      -Bernice Johnson
    
There are no laurels in life. . . just new challenges.      -Katharine Hepburn
   

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

   

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.       -Epicurus

   

  

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