Obstacles Quotes - Page 19

• Setbacks and fear are inevitable.  The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

  Blake Mycoskie

  Motivational, Success, Inevitable

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.53, Random House

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• Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.

  Brian Tracy

  Lying, Opportunity, Benefits

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• Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Overcoming, Scar, Reminders

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• All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  May, Poise, Creatures

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• If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Reality, Names

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

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• In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

  Sarada Devi

  Roots, Suffering, Desire

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 369), 2004.

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• Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

  Rod Stryker

  Desire, Inspired, Life Is

  "Spiritual vs. Material Fulfillment: Who Says You Can’t Have Both? (Part II)" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2011.

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• In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Thinking, Sound, Valleys

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• Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

  Mason Cooley

  Strength, Teacher, Weakness

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• Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.

  James Cash Penney

  Success, Men, Play

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• The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.

  Peter Senge

  Mean, Thinking, Dragons

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• Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Running, Heart

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• In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Retirement, Flow, Flight

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• All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

  Henri Bergson

  Army, Animal, Men

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.224, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.

  Louise Hay

  Adversity, Stones, Stepping Stones

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jul 12, 2011

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• By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

  Wayne Dyer

  Disappointment, Anger, Mean

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• The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Strong, Character, Men

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• We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.

  Faye J Crosby

  Determination, Real, Path

  Faye J. Crosby (1991). “Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families”, Free Pr

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• Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

  Robert Greene

  School, Persistence, Past

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• Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.

  Si Robertson

  Trust In God, Sometimes, Found

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• One thing people often want me to talk about is my public love life. When it comes to my love life, the perception seems as though I am a player. But that’s not true. Love is something I am still learning. It’s just an obstacle that I haven’t yet mastered. I think that’s my biggest hurdle in life.

  Chris Brown

  Love Life, Player, Love Is

  "Chris Brown : 'Love is Something I am Still Learning'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. November 30, 2012.

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• Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

  Mircea Eliade

  Men, World, Sacred

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• Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Block, Often Is, Views

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 22, 2016

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• It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

  Margaret Sanger

  Vision, Quests, Defeat

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• In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Tradition, Human Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

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