Hurdle Quotes

• Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

  Og Mandino

  Positive, Pain, Attitude

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.79, Bantam

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• Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

  Dan Millman

  Courage, Wall, Conquer

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• If you're not ready to fall, you're not ready to hurdle.

  Tonie Campbell

  Fall, Track, Ready

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• The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

  John Shaffer

  Track, Together, Littles

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• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

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• I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

  Gillian Anderson

  Lying, Believe, Overcoming

  "Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks : Entrepreneurial Skills, Stories, and Encouragement for Modern Girls". Book by Stacy Kravetz, Foreword, 1999.

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• You have to take a leap of faith to realize a dream, and this is something that a lot of people aren't willing to do.

  Ron Bramlett

  Motivational, Dream, People

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• Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody can sprint. Not everybody can run hurdles. There's an extra dimension involved. Hurdlers would make a good subject for a thesis in psychology - they are of apersuasion that just needs an extra dimension.

  Denny Moyer

  Motivational, Running, Track

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• Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

  Attila the Hun

  Funny Running, Cross Country Running, Weak

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• The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.

  Eleanor Mondale

  Real, Real Friends, Who Your Friends Are

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• You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

  George Lucas

  Risk, Able, Enough

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• 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

  Challenges, Overcoming, Faces

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Sep 18, 2013

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• I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us.

  Gillian Anderson

  Lying, Overcoming

  "Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks". Book by Stacy Kravetz, 1999.

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• How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form.

  Selim Nurudeen

  Track, Needs, Form

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• There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

  Lynn Davies

  Sports, Athlete, Live Your Life

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• In the hurdles you have ten opportunities to improve; that's what's so cool about it.

  Ron Bramlett

  Opportunity, Track, Ten

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• You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Home, Writing

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• It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

  Matt Dillon

  Actors, Pressure, Sensitive

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• The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

  Renaldo Nehemiah

  Motivational, Art, Track

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• I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.

  Rod Milburn

  Motivational, Past, Track

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• Hurdling is like Kung-fu. Everyone comes from a different school. And everybody says 'my Kung-fu is better than your Kung-fu.' You have to find the technique that best fits your body size.

  Larry Shipp

  School, Track, Technique

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• I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.

  Rod Milburn

  Running, Track, Dancer

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• You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.

  Renaldo Nehemiah

  Motivational, Running, Track

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• When you envision yourself doing something, you'll be surprised at how much that helps you to actually do it.

  Selim Nurudeen

  Motivational, Track, Helping

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