#Obstacles Quotes

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

“All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.”

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

“Every wall is a door.”

“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.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Reality is blocked by form and image.”

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

“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”

“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.”

“The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.”

“Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.”

“You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.”

“Fear is the fatal killer of desire.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Every little obstacle-every fall you have-is an opportunity.”

“To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.”

“Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.”

“Every obstacle is a test.”

“The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.”

“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.”

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

“Fear too often spells failure.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.”

“If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.”

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

“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.”

“If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course”

“Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.”

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

“Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?”

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

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

“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.”

“If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.”

“Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.”

“Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards your success.”

“There shall be no Alps.”

“The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.”

“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 necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”