Obstacles Quotes

What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

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.

The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train havealways been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

The tree the tempest with a crash of woodThrows down in front of us is not to barOur passage to our journey's end for good,But just to ask us who we think we are.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

There shall be no Alps.

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.

In most cases there are obstacle standing between you and those opportunities in life but, I just want you to know that front row seat is available everywhere.

With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

It's one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It's quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you're visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe.

Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

Fear too often spells failure.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back.

Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

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

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.