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I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.
Sep 10, 2025
A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.
The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
At a time when the European project is facing challenges, it's especially important to show the benefits of economic integration by continuing to invest in our people and working to reduce inequality, both within and across our countries.
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
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.
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
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.
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.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
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.
Every artist was first an amateur.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
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.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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.
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
May you live all the days of your life.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
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