Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton

Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.--John Amatt

All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.--Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.--Elizabeth O'Connor (Eighth Day of Creation: Gifts and Creativity)

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.--Roger Crawford

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.--Henry David Thoreau

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.-Robert Conklin

Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.--Josie Bisset

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.--Sir James M. Barrie

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956)