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“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
― T.S. Eliot

“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
― Roger Crawford

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”
― Bette Davis

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
― Molière

“According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.”
― Ray A. Davis

“When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger.”
― Eric Bates

“You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.”
― Kelly A. Morgan

“The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. ”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

“I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.”
― Andrew Strauss

“Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Those who mistrust their own abilities are being too wicked to themselves, discouraging themselves from doing what they should have been excelling in. If you are good at discouraging yourself, you can't be a good leader because leadership is built on inspiring others to face challenges.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”
― Bernie Siegel