Quotes and Sayings about Obstacles
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Perseverance, Difficulties, Effect, Obstacles, Patience)
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Courage, Perseverance, Difficulties, Obstacles)
"I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Challenge, Obstacles, Overcoming)
"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."
- Sai Baba
(Related: Experience, Difficulties, Man, Needs, Obstacles, Spiritual, Will)
"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
- Albert Bandura
(Related: Life, People, Obstacles, Order, Self, Sense, Struggle, Succeed)
"I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked."
- Wade Boggs
(Related: Life, Kids, Obstacles)
"The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line."
- Brian Boitano
(Related: Perseverance, Obstacles, Overcoming, Spirit, Vote)
"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Sports, Athletes, Difficulty, Metaphor, Obstacles, Overcoming)
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
- Claude M. Bristol
(Related: Effort, Obstacles)
"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."
- Les Brown
(Related: Motivation, Hunger, Obstacles, Order, Will)
"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
- Nicolas de Chamfort
(Related: Nature, Husband, Laws, Lovers, Man, Name, Obstacles, Parents, Passion, Right, Woman)
"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."
- Shirley Chisholm
(Related: Being, Obstacles)
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Morality, Consequences, Man, Obstacles)
"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Obstacles)
"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
- Karl Von Clausewitz
(Related: Leader, Strength, Ambition, Obstacles, Will)
"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Goal, May, Obstacles)
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
- E. Joseph Cossman
(Related: Goal, Eyes, Obstacles)
"The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Men, Women, Survival, Children, Israel, Leading, Military, Obstacles, State, Suicide)
"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles."
- Edwidge Danticat
(Related: Dreams, People, Growing up, Obstacles, Poor, Voice)
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... 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
(Related: Life, Adversity, May, Obstacles, World)
"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."
- Henry Drummond
(Related: Men, Life, Difficulties, Obstacles)
"I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself."
- Steve Earle
(Related: Obstacles)
"Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!"
- Buddy Ebsen
(Related: Being, Obstacles, Will)
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
- B. C. Forbes
(Related: History, Obstacles)
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Goal, Eyes, Obstacles)
"One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em."
- Benny Goodman
(Related: Obstacles, Want)
"Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."
- Martha Graham
(Related: Faith, Vision, Act, Desire, Obstacles, Perfection, Practice)
"I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: Life, Growth, Jobs, Learning, Obstacles)
"Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves."
- Paul Harris
(Related: Obstacles, Will)
"If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong."
- Jeff Hawkins
(Related: History, Obstacles, Understanding, World, Wrong)
"We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy."
- Goldie Hawn
(Related: Joy, Obstacles)
"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
- Andy Hertzfeld
(Related: Being, Obstacles)
"Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it."
- Theodor Herzl
(Related: Desire, May, Obstacles, Opponents)
"However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops."
- Paul von Hindenburg
(Related: Effect, Fact, Now, Obstacles, Perfection, Troops)
"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Man, Obstacles)
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
- Harri Holkeri
(Related: Change, Obstacles)
"Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Obstacles)
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan
(Related: Work, Obstacles)
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan
(Related: Work, Obstacles, Trying, Will)
"Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that."
- Boris Kodjoe
(Related: Love, People, Hurt, Obstacles, Problems)
"I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles."
- Greg Louganis
(Related: Obstacles)
"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
- Maxwell Maltz
(Related: Happiness, Life, Goals, Environment, Obstacles, Problems, Satisfaction)
"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats."
- Og Mandino
(Related: Success, Selling, Victory, Careers, Importance, Obstacles)
"When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Time, Progress, Burden, Journey, May, Obstacles, Right, Road)
"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Animals, Cowards, Eye, Obstacles, Sight, Spring, Will)
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Obstacles)
"Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Ideas, May, Objectives, Obstacles)
"I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused."
- Marlee Matlin
(Related: Money, Obstacles)
"The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation."
- Giuseppe Mazzini
(Related: Rights, Nation, Obstacles, Theory)
"The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome."
- Jayne Meadows
(Related: People, Obstacles)
"Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan."
- Paul J. Meyer
(Related: People, Determination, Goals, Confidence, Obstacles)
"Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time."
- Shannon Miller
(Related: Time, Obstacles, Right)
"There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear."
- Marion Milner
(Related: Fear, Cause, Obstacles)
"The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former."
- Alfred A. Montapert
(Related: History, Majority, Objectives, Obstacles, Reward)
"Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that."
- Parminder Nagra
(Related: Dream, Heart, Deep, Football, Obstacles, Passion)
"I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way."
- Johnny Nash
(Related: Now, Obstacles, Rain)
"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish."
- Chuck Norris
(Related: Determination, Obstacles, Want, Will, Worth)
"We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment."
- Olusegun Obasanjo
(Related: Investment, Laws, Obstacles, Will)
"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
- Norman Vincent Peale
(Related: Strength, Obstacles, Will)
"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."
- Norman Vincent Peale
(Related: Imagination, Mind, Obstacles, Will)
"Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you."
- Gregory Peck
(Related: Character, Makeup, Obstacles, Writer)
"I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death."
- Leon Redbone
(Related: Business, Death, Kiss, Obstacles)
"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
- Christopher Reeve
(Related: Strength, Obstacles)
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
- Christopher Reeve
(Related: Strength, Obstacles)
"Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities."
- Bill Richardson
(Related: Family, Obstacles, Parents)
"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Man, Mind, Obstacles)
"Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: Work, Goals, Job, Obstacles)
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Education, Intelligence, Thought, Fact, Freedom, Obstacles)
"I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Progress, Thoughts, Addiction, Language, Obstacles, Philosophy)
"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Absence, Freedom, May, Obstacles)
"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
- Kyle Schmid
(Related: Change, People, Eyes, Obstacles, Past)
"Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today."
- Robert H. Schuller
(Related: Obstacles, Press, Today, Tomorrow)
"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
- Albert Schweitzer
(Related: Strength, Adversity, Obstacles, Overcoming)
"While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: College, Obstacles, Students)
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Power, Motive, Obstacles, Wind)
"The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement."
- Nassau William Senior
(Related: Economy, Improvement, Obstacles)
"With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue."
- Nassau William Senior
(Related: Happiness, Virtue, Wealth, Attention, Complaint, Consideration, First, Grave, Obstacles, Respect)
"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."
- Barbara Sher
(Related: Obstacles)
"Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze."
- Barbara Sher
(Related: Obstacles)
"Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want."
- Marsha Sinetar
(Related: Life, Opportunity, Goals, Values, Obstacles, Want, Windows)
"There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different."
- Alfred P. Sloan
(Related: Courage, Ambition, Obstacles)
"A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife."
- Anna Garlin Spencer
(Related: Wife, Successful, Obstacles, Woman)
"To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(Related: Education, Eyes, Obstacles)
"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Success, Time, Obstacles)
"The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition."
- Gustav Stresemann
(Related: Life, Victory, Errors, Obstacles, Opposition)
"In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler."
- Kurt Student
(Related: Army, Now, Obstacles, Respect)
"I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent."
- Major Taylor
(Related: Obstacles, Will)
"I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life."
- Major Taylor
(Related: Life, Sympathy, Deep, Feeling, Obstacles, Will, Words)
"With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made."
- Hideki Tojo
(Related: Nation, Obstacles, Options, Order)
"Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights."
- Walter Ulbricht
(Related: Enthusiasm, Economy, Living, Obstacles, Will)
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."
- Booker T. Washington
(Related: Life, Success, Obstacles, Succeed, Trying)
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
- Booker T. Washington
(Related: Life, Success, Obstacles)
"But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Cure, Obstacles)
"Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles."
- Kim Wilde
(Related: Talent, Obstacles, Will)
"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day."
- Armstrong Williams
(Related: Education, Babies, Children, Crime, Day, Drugs, Obstacles, Temptation)
"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness."
- Lucinda Williams
(Related: Happiness, People, Obstacles)
"My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore."
- Roberta Williams
(Related: Adventure, Obstacles)
"You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life."
- Dave Winfield
(Related: Life, Successful, Baseball, Obstacles, Problems)
"Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Joy, Obstacles, Will)
"You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done."
- Jack Youngblood
(Related: Life, Circumstances, Job, Obstacles, Pain, Want)
"No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them."
- Robert Zemeckis
(Related: Obstacles)