Obstacles Quotes - Page 3

• Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

  William Butler Yeats

  Joy, Overcoming, Triumph

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

  Edmund Wilson

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• One  way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll  find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

  Benny Goodman

  Ems, Want, Way

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• I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Jobs, Thinking, Growth

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• The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.

  Brian Boitano

  Motivational, Perseverance, Athlete

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Overcoming, Path, Helping

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• Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Sight, African American, Challenges

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• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can really understand what's that about.

  Halle Berry

  Fighting, African American, Challenges

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• A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Wind, Overcoming

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• The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Lying, Water, Faces

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• I need problems. A good problem makes me come alive.

  Tiny Rowland

  Needs, Alive, Problem

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• Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.

  Edwin Land

  Competition, Important, Way

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• One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.

  Roy Herbert Reinhart

  Hurt, Thinking, Worry

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• Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

  Karl Popper

  Problem, Raises, Solutions

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.38, Routledge

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• Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

  Sylvia Porter

  Relationship, Silence, Flags

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• I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

  Greg Louganis

  Book, I've Learned, Signing

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• With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.

  Hideki Tojo

  Order, Arms, Path

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• You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Baseball, Successful

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• No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Matter, Way, Path

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• A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Women, Successful, Wife

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

  Jill Purce

  Decision, Greek, Growth

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• We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

  Steve Jobs

  Information, Impossible, Problem

  Robert X. Cringley for a Public Broadcasting System [PBS] television series, "Triumph of the Nerds" (1995), "The Lost Interview: Steve Jobs Tells Us What Really Matters", Forbes, Steve Denning, November 17, 2011.

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• The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Failure, Winning

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Stumbling is not falling.

  Malcolm X

  Fall, Design, Challenges

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