Facing Challenges Quotes

• Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Ideas, Challenges

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 27, 2015

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• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

  Moliere

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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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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• Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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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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• The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

  Bette Davis

  Courage, Self Confidence, Keys

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

  William Halsey

  Perseverance, Bad Day, People

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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Feet, Way, Gold Medals

  Nadia Comaneci (2009). “Letters to a Young Gymnast”, p.50, Basic Books

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• Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  FaceBook post by Nadia Comaneci from Apr 24, 2014

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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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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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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