Obstacles Quotes - Page 7

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

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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

  Jayne Meadows

  People, Overcoming, Knows

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

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Adversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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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 obstacle is the path.

  Sara Shepard

  Path

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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

  James Patterson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

  Mark Cane

  Ideas, Overcoming, Barriers

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• Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

  Simone Weil

  Source, Consolation, True Faith

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• Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

  Epictetus

  Responsibility, Choices, Body

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Men, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.130, Xist Publishing

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  Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 12, 2016

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  A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Strength

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• The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• New level, New devil.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, New Beginnings, Devil

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• Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

  Tony Robbins

  Failure, Adversity, Achievement

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

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• Fear's the only obstacle that gets in the way of doing what we love. Fear holds us back from living the lives we're made to live.

  Miley Cyrus

  Way, Fear Of Love, Made

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