Obstacles Quotes · Page 8

Obstacles are what we see when we take our eyes off the goal.

— Rita Davenport

When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.

— Anonymous

Timidity puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them.

— Paulo Coelho

Don't let small things stop you from accomplishing bigger and better things.

— Sonya Parker

The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.

— Malcolm Goodwin

I learned that one's mentality can influence how they react to physical obstacles.

— Lee Seung-gi

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

— Richard Paul Evans

I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself.

— Tricia Helfer

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

— Swami Vivekananda

You can lift as many heavy weights as you can, but if you're not strong spiritually, the devil will win. Lift your…

— Lorenzo Hart

With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a…

— Hideki Tojo

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are…

— Benny Goodman

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going…

— Craig Sager

Obstacles are the pressures for all diamonds in the rough; no way around them only through them.

— Geraldine Vermaak

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the…

— Richard Diebenkorn

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal

— Brian Tracy

Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this…

— David O. Russell

The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order,…

— Victor Gollancz

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People…

— Orison Swett Marden

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I think that's normal for someone who wants to grow and develop.…

— Gianluigi Buffon

People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure,…

— Youssou N'Dour

Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You…

— Chuck Ragan

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business…

— Leon Redbone

I've played basketball all of my life, and I've had things happen on the court that you eventually have to move on…

— Scottie Pippen

Because my college was a local college, it had a historic role in educating minorities and the tuition increase was viewed as…

— Lewis Schiff

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of…

— John Muir

This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties…

— Bruno Bettelheim

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was…

— Richard Matheson

Not everyone is going to end up being a founder of a company, but the skill of being entrepreneurial, having ideas and…

— Alexis Ohanian

Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered…

— Stella Benson

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure -…

— Claire Messud

With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted…

— Octavio Paz

“You gain strength with every difficulty, which you boldly overcome.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

— Alan Cohen

“Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

— Bill Phillips

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

— Samael Aun Weor

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

— Stephen Hawking

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

— Anonymous

Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

— Christopher Voss