Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

The quote frames personal growth as a product of deliberate struggle: you advance most when you take on tasks that currently exceed your perceived capacity. “Contending” emphasizes active engagement rather than passive endurance, while “at the moment” implies that weakness is temporary and can be outgrown through effort. The closing image—“toward the stars”—casts self-improvement as aspirational and expansive, suggesting that aiming high is not naïve but necessary for development. In motivational terms associated with Brian Tracy’s work, the line encourages stretching beyond comfort zones, treating difficulty as evidence of a worthwhile goal and as the mechanism by which competence, confidence, and ambition are built.