Obstacles Quotes - Page 6

• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles that inhibit your progress but your confidence, and will to break the inertia of fear and doubt.

  Douglas Smith

  Block, Believe, Doubt

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• You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger!

  Shannon MacMillan

  Softball, Sports, Dream

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• Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.

  Brian Tracy

  Moving, Thinking, Goal

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• 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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• I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

  Johnny Nash

  Fear, Rain, Gone

  Song: I Can See Clearly Now, Album: I Can See Clearly Now

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• Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Running, Perseverance, Healing

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• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Mean

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• Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Rooms, Problem

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• To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Adversity, Perserverance

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.110, Modern Library

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• I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

  Michael Jordan

  Life, Sports, People

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Art, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press

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• Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.

  John Harvey-Jones

  People, Trying, And Love

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• Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.

  Robert Owen

  Health, Ignorance, Adversity

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.349

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• An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

  Robert South

  Opportunity, Oppurtunity

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

  Sylvia Porter

  Relationship, Silence, Flags

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

  Greg Louganis

  Book, I've Learned, Signing

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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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