Obstacles Quotes - Page 10

• Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Wish, Achieve

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• The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
  Throws down in front of us is not to bar
  Our passage to our journey's end for good,
  But just to ask us who we think we are.

  Robert Frost

  Journey, Thinking, Tree

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• A perspective that allows you to consistently make decisions based on the right set of criteria. Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome. Nothing I can be faced with that I won't grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Positivity, Thinking, Knowing

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.

  John M Barry

  Giving, Weakness, Overcoming

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• "My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.

  Robert Six

  Work, Doors, Problem

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• Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Happiness, Loss, Romantic Love

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• The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Action, Stoicism

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.162, Modern Library

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• It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.

  Ann Shulgin

  Self, People, Hatred

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• The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

  Charles Edwards

  Tools, Management, Budgets

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• Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Grateful, People

  "The Art of Peace". Book by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in their geographical boundaries to continue the lordship of some men over others and does not extend its message and its declaration of universal freedom within their domain. But Islam cannot agree to this unless they submit to its authority by paying Jizyah, which will be a guarantee that they have opened their doors for the preaching of Islam and will not put any obstacle in its way through the power of the state.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Men, Doors, Guarantees That

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• Age doesn't matter. Obstacles don't matter. Winning is the challenge. Bottom line, inspiring others is the goal.

  Glenn Allison

  Winning, Goal, Challenges

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• Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

  Orrin Woodward

  Journey, Doubt, Mind

  Twitter post from Jun 08, 2016

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• Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

  Orrin Woodward

  Dream, Leader, Winner

  Twitter post from Jul 01, 2016

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• One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

  Markus Wolf

  Giving, Overcoming, Paper

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• The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

  Diane Ravitch

  Reform, Complacency, American Education

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• Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

  Lester Sumrall

  Motivational, Champion, Risk

  Lester Sumrall (1995). “Making of a Champion”, Whitaker Distribution

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• Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

  William H. Hastie

  Hope, Achievement, Despair

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• People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they're going to want to do business with you. And if they don't you're going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, People, Overcoming

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Jan 29, 2017

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• Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Faith, Christian, Laughing

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2014

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• You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.

  Ralph Bunche

  Hard Work, Persistence, Path

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• For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Mistake

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• The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it.

  Robert McKee

  Inspiration, Creativity, Circles

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• Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Overcoming

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2870, Manonmani Publishers

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• Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Weather, Mountain

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