***** CHALLENGES *****

Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for. -- Travis White

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. -- Terry Bradshaw

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.  -- Charles W. Chesnutt

 Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
-- Mark Twain

 When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, "I'm going to prove you wrong!" -- Picabo Street

 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 tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. -- Gail Sheehy

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

 You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.  -- Darwin P. Kingsley

  I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged. -- Connie Chung

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. -- Margaret Chase Smith

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

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. -- John Cage

I find working with glass meditative, almost therapeutic. I can leave the world behind, and focus... The simplicity of form, the drama of rich, intense colour, the joy of challenge, and the challenge of endurance... The piece, when it is over, is not what is made, but how it is made. -- Andrew Kuntz

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

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech. -- Edwin H. Friedman

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.-- Hugh Miller

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. -- Margaret Chase Smith

To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains. -- Mary Pettibone Poole

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. -- Mary Pickford

... without darkness
Nothing comes to birth,
As without light
Nothing flowers. -- Mary Sharton

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. -- Maya Angelou

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. -- Mitsugi Saotoome

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. -- Samuel Richardson

You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?' The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing.' What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river. [The Book of the Vision Quest] -- Steven Foster

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. -- Walter Linn

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. -- Warren Bennis

~ When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge ~ Terry Bradshaw 

~ To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist ~ Gail Sheehy

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

~ You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind ~ Darwin P. Kingsley

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

~ Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it. ~ Robert H. Schuller

~ The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges ~ Martin Luther King Jr

~ A challenge is an opportunity to prove your ability to yourself, and others ~ Joe Brown

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

~ Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. ~ Helen Keller

~ You must do the thing you think you cannot do ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

~ Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him ~ Aldous Huxley

~ Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one ~ Bruce Lee

~ Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have ~ Robert Frost

~ Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory ~ Gen George Patton

~ Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging ~ Joseph Campbell

~ Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average ~ Jim Rohn

~ True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

~ The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly ~ Jim Rohn

~ If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed ~ Anthony Robbins

~ Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience ~ William Arthur

~ The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse ~ Carlos Casteneda

~ Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba

~ Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance ~ Kofi Annan

~ There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man. ~ Sean Connery

~ Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day ~ Jesse Jackson

~ A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it ~ Marcel Proust

~ Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team ~ Scottie Pippen

~ How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser ~

~ Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character ~ Russell Mark

~ This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge ~ Bill Clinton

~ The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for? ~ Johnny Depp

~ The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart ~ Dorothy Day

~ The duty of youth is to challenge corruption ~ Kurt Cobain

~ Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. ~ Colin Powell

~ A stream is music and motion: smooth glides, fast, turbulent riffles and deep pools, each posing a special challenge ~ Nelson Bryant

~ The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned ~ Antonio Gramsci

~ There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise ~  Christine Downing

~ Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression ~ Margaret Sanger

~ There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation ~ Kingman Brewster

~ To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains ~  Mary Pettibone Poole

~ There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now ~ James Arthur Baldwin

~ The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die ~ John Steinbeck

~ What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge ~ Bette Greene

~ The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them ~ John F. Kennedy

~ When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, ''I'm going to prove you wrong ~ Picabo Street

~ Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

~ If someone says can't, that shows you what to do ~ John Cage

~ In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it ~ Norman Vincent Peale

~ 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

~ It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ~ Robert W. Service

~ One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven. ~ Pir Vilayat Khan

~ The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

~ We only think when we are confronted with problems ~  John Dewey

~ What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer. ~ Douglas Adams

~ The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. ~ Martin Luther King Jr

~ It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again ~ Vince Lombardi

~ Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down ~ Charles F. Kettering

~ The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach ~ Clarence Blasier

~ Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records ~ William A. Ward

~ Make every rejection moment an opportunity for revolution ~ William Ngwako Maphoto

~ If someone says 'can't', that shows you what to do ~ John Cage

~ Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing ~ Lady Holland

~ For every mountain there is a miracle ~ Robert H. Schuller

~ I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much ~ Mother Teresa

~ Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it ~ Washington Irving

~ Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant ~ Horace

~ There is no education like adversity ~ Disraeli

~ The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others ~ Mme. de Maintenon

~ Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat ~ Teddy Roosevelt

~ It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat ~ Teddy Roosevelt

~ On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest, imagine you are a person with a level 2 strength of character and attitude looking at a level 5 problem. Would this problem appear to be big or little? From a level 2 perspective, a level 5 problem would seem like a big problem ~ Unknown

~ If you can live by the best inside yourself, the worst outside yourself will crumble at your feet. ~ Laura Teresa Marquez

~ Throughout the years of your life you will face many challenges, remember that you can climb the highest mountain, drive through the roughest storm, soar across the bluest sky, or even sail across the roughest waters. It is only destined by your attitude where you will end up in life. The most important thing is don't let yourself get lost in the crowd ~ Angela

~ I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin ~ Lee Ann Womack

~ Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay ~ Plato

~ These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed. . . . Great necessities call out great virtues ~ Unknown

~ The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place ~ Marian Wright Edelman

~ Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life ~ Charlotte Bunch

~ We choose to go...not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win ~  John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ Are we simply romantically challenged, or are we sluts ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

~ Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded ~ Dale Spender

~ 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

~ Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space ~ Rebecca West

~ Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

~ Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others ~ Amelia Earhart

~ My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now ~ Cameron Diaz

~ The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible ~ Hillary Clinton

~ If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. ~ Harry S. Truman

~ Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~ Unknown

~ On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest, imagine you are a person with a level 2 strength of character and attitude looking at a level 5 problem. Would this problem appear to be big or little? From a level 2 perspective, a level 5 problem would seem like a big problem. Now imagine you've grown yourself and become a level 8 person. Would the same level 5 problem be a big problem or a little problem? Magically, the identical problem is now a little problem Finally, imagine that you've really worked hard on yourself and become a level 10 person. Now, is this same level 5 problem a big problem or a little problem? The answer is that it's no problem. It doesn't even register in your brain as a problem. There's no negative energy around it. It's just a normal occurrence to handle, like brushing your teeth or getting dressed ~ T. Harv Eker

~ But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous ~ Unknown