Big Challenges Quotes

• Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

  Roger Crawford

  Encouraging, Optimistic, Adversity

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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

  Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Wall, Inspirational Life

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• 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

  Life, Change, Meaningful

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 27, 2017

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  Randy Pausch

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Devil and Miss Prym”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

  Robert Redford

  Success, Generations, World

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

  Bernie Mac

  Motivational, Challenges, Bigs

  Bernie Mac (2009). “Maybe You Never Cry Again”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Light, Challenges, Lessons

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.17, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better. The reality is we're about to find out. Our toughest West Coast trip is normally the circus trip in November. This year, they're flip-flopped. We did well on the first West Coast trip 3-3. Now, this is a big one. All these teams Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix, Utah, Denver, Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers are quality teams. Each team is really playing well. It's going to be a big challenge for us.

  Scott Skiles

  Team, Reality, New Orleans

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• Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Player, Garden, People

  "Zelda: A tale of two video game legends" by Steve Baxter, www.cnn.com. December 4, 1998.

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• That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

  Marc Maron

  Disappointment, People, Challenges

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.75, Spiegel & Grau

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• Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up.

  Barack Obama

  People, Challenges, Youth

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• I did the Kilimanjaro climb a few years ago, then the six-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru so this bike ride to raise money for Great Ormond Street seemed like the next big challenge.

  Denise Van Outen

  Years, Challenges, Next

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• If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

  Robert Redford

  Issues, Challenges, Way

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• I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

  Kevin Rudd

  Lying, Apology, Challenges

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• The early years were more about learning than about acting.
  I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Business, Father

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• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

  Larry Page

  Graduation, Dream, Dog

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• Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Unique, Challenges

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

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• 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

  Perseverance, Believe, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 19, 2015

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• The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

  William J. Clinton

  Government, People, Volunteer

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• Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

  Karch Kiraly

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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• So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

  Michael J. Fox

  Husband, Challenges, Patient

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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