Obstacles Quotes - Page 11

• Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Fate, Detours

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• Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.

  Ali Vincent

  Accomplishment, Faces, Reason Why

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.154, Rodale

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• When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

  Brian Tracy

  Want Something, Overcoming, Way

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.46, Jaico Publishing House

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• Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something.

  Tim Tebow

  Adversity, People, Not Good Enough

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• May God remind us daily-no matter what kind of obstacles we face-that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him.

  Beth Moore

  Voice, May, Matter

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• Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.

  Erwin McManus

  Challenges, World, Limits

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This deep sense of feeling that, 'I am' blessed can help you overcome any obstacle in life. It gives you courage and confidence and it will open you up for grace to pour in.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Blessed, Giving, Grace

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• There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.

  H. G. Wells

  Believe, Mind, Age

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• Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles;
  Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Submissive, Surrender, Cowardice

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• Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Distance, Ocean, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1794, Manonmani Publishers

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• I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way... We would be like sculptors who set out to carve a statue. They remove every obstacle to the pure view of the hidden image, and simply by the act of clearing aside they show up the beauty which is hidden.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Lying, Light

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• Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

  Jeff Cooper

  Self, Long, Doe

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• Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

  A. B. Simpson

  Jesus, Challenges, Path

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• Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.

  Tony Horton

  Self, Lists, Excuse

  FaceBook post by Tony Horton from Jul 20, 2010

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• We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Dream, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Barack Obama from Mar 01, 2011

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• If you have no obstacles in your own mind, then outer obstacles will not hinder you or cause you worry.

  Hsuan Hua

  Worry, Mind, Causes

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• We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!

  Catherine DeVrye

  Wisdom, Country, Real

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• Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Yield, Government

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Temptation, Overcoming

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• Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life’s challenges is actually our own fear of failure.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Challenges, Fear Of Failure, Meetings

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• Pursue the obstacle
  It will set you free

  Mark Nepo

  Pursue

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.400, Conari Press

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• Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Goal, Raw Materials, Purpose

  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.221, Modern Library

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• Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

  Stephen Hawking

  Needs, Disability

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• The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.

  Max De Pree

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

  Brian Weiss

  Loss, Opportunity, Soul

  FaceBook post by Dr. Brian Weiss from Dec 19, 2011

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