Challenges ask us to stretch beyond what feels comfortable. They test courage, awaken resilience, and sometimes reveal strength we did not know we possessed. As Linda Ronstadt reminds us, “You have to erect a fence and say, ‘OK, scale this.’”

I love the challenge. ~ Nancy Lopez

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it. ~ Ayn Rand

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. ~ Winston Churchill

I have only my own burden to bear. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld

There are no laurels in life... just new challenges. ~ Katharine Hepburn

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. ~ Epictetus

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~ Walt Disney

You know what they say — the high trees get the wind. ~ Lance Armstrong

Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering. ~ Sextus Propertius

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross