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Challenge(s)

Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton
All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.--Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.--Elizabeth O'Connor (Eighth Day of Creation: Gifts and Creativity)
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 ( Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - February 11, 2003)
Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.--James Ramesy Ullman
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.--Hillary Rodham Clinton
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
If you want to see something done, just tell some human beings it can't be done. Make it known that it's impossible to fly to the moon, or run 100 meters in 9.9 seconds, or solve Fermat's Last Theorem. Remind the world that no one has ever hit 62 home runs in a season or stuffed 18 people into a Volkswagen. Dangle the undoable in front of the world. Then, consider it done.--Merrill Lynch advertisement
If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.--Lou Brock
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.--Bernice Johnson Reagon
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.--Helen Keller
Not every challenge has to be dealt with on Monday. That's what Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are for!-Lawrence Spindel
Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.--Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past)
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.--Anne-Sophie Swetchine
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.--William Frederick Halsy, Jr.
There's always room for improvement, you know--it's the biggest room in the house.--Louise Heath Leber
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.-- Bill Clinton (Inauguration speech, 20 Jan 1993)
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.--Gail Sheehy
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.--St. Basil
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?--Bette Greene
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.--David Sarnoff
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.--Peter Marshall
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.--Eleanor Roosevelt (You Learn by Living)