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William Penn

Writer, Colonial Proprietor of Pennsylvania

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Challenge - Inspiration - Motivation

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Steve Martin

Comedian, Actor, Musician, Writer, Filmmaker

A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

Challenge - Giving - Show - Trial

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

Well, I think that when you think about the challenges we face, these are challenges that require us to look forward and not backwards. When it comes to the economy I think we have to recognize that we are now in a global economy. And that the measure of our success is: how well are we training our workers? How well are we investing in the new energy economy?

Challenge

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Michael J. Fox

Actor, Comedian, Producer, Author

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.

Challenge - Parkinson

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Lady Gaga

Singer, Songwriter, Actress

I can't wait to design the performance. I want to make a moment that is about much more than me. Performing in space is such an honor. I want to challenge myself to come up with something that will not only bring everyone together but will also have a message of love that blasts into the beyond.

Challenge - Performance - Wants

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John McCain

Politician, Military Officer

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

Challenge - Countries - Kindness

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

Challenge - Mastering

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.

Challenge - Tranquility - Wishing

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and therefore, at best, seek to encourage it. Serving the status quo in political and socioeconomic realms is a different matter.

Challenge - Politics - Survival - Tendency

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Jane Fonda

Actress, Writer, Political Activist

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

Challenge - Inspiration - Perfection - Whole

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalist, Founder of Analytical Psychology

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Challenge - Consciousness - Morals - Whole

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Richard Branson

Business Magnate, Investor, Author

Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.

Availability - Challenge - Positive

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Alexandre Dumas

Novelist, playwright

Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]

Boxing - Challenge - Hearing

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Fred Rogers

Television Presenter, Actor, Puppeteer, Producer

The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.

Challenge - Show - Toughness

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Walt Disney

Entrepreneur, Animator, Voice Actor, Film Producer

It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.

Challenge - Enjoying - Kindness - Story

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the capacities are present, unlike other animals, as far as is known. There's no challenge to the theory - not mine, but everyone's - that the human language faculty provides the means for generation of an infinite array of structured expressions.

Animals - Challenge - Human - Knowledge - Linguistics - Meaning

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Actress, Producer, Designer

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.

Challenge

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction.

Challenge - Commanding - Encounter - Wants

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Oprah Winfrey

Media Executive, Actress, Talk Show Host, TV Producer

The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.

Challenge - Movement

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

Challenge - Loss

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Woodrow Wilson

Former President of the United States

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

Challenge - Inspiration - Provocation

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Oprah Winfrey

Media Executive, Actress, Talk Show Host, TV Producer

You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.

Actress - Challenge - Inspiration - Production

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Saul Bellow

Writer

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)

Challenge - Creativity - Human - Loss

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Jim Carrey

Actor, Comedian, Producer, Painter

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

Belief - Challenge - Wants

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John F. Kennedy

Former President of the United States

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

Challenge - Dependence - Poetry

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!

Challenge - Incapacity

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.

Challenge - Christianity - Movement - Religion - Revolution

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

Challenge - Colors - Countries - Existence - Facts - Nations - Racing - Recognition - Speaking

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.

Challenge - Faithfulness - Judging - Sharing

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Mao Zedong

Founding Father of the People's Republic of China

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Challenge - Loss

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Challenge - Countries - Education - Explanation - Giving - Playing - Willing

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Epicurus

Philosopher

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Adversity - Boyfriend - Challenge - Difficulty - Fearlessness - Husband - Survival

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