Obstacles Quotes - Page 2

• I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Fear

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• 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

  Determination, Accomplish Your Goals, Overcoming

  "The Elephant And The Twig: The Art of Positive Thinking". Book by Geoff Thompson, 2007.

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• The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

  Jayne Meadows

  People, Overcoming, Knows

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• We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Law, Investment, Genuine

  Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Information and Culture (1999). “New dawn”

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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• 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

  Our World, Understanding, Looks

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• 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

  Errors, Victory, Individual

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• If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Challenges, Looks, Obstacle In Life

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• 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 Armand Montapert

  Inspirational, Majority, Records

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• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

  Harri Holkeri

  Challenges, Trying, Advantage

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• Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

  Kim Wilde

  Real, Talent, Real Talent

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• I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

  Paul Krugman

  Believe, Men, Mind

  "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008". Book by Paul Krugman, 2009.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Addiction, Progress

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.28, Psychology Press

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Wisdom, Time

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Adversity, Men, Bravery

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1927). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)”

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• Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

  Barbara Sher

  Leadership, Motivation, Real

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.180, Dell

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• Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Confidence, Perseverance, Believe

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

  Wendell Phillips

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.282

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  Randy Pausch

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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• Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

  Margaret Atwood

  Patience, Children, Wall

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