Obstacles Quotes

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality… — John W. Gardner
When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow… — Mary Kay Ash
It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on… — Wynton Marsalis
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. — L. Ron Hubbard
A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie… — Bertrand Russell
I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a… — Paulo Coelho
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.… — William James
I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then… — Arthur Blank
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love)… — Thomas Aquinas
When [a politician] is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Great obstacles make great leaders. — Billy Diamond
You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way. — Jennifer Freeman
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is… — Thomas Huxley
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they… — Albert Schweitzer
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… — Robert Owen
I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will… — Major Taylor
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. — Paul de Rapin
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and… — Maxwell Maltz
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when… — Orison Swett Marden
The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do… — Sydney J. Harris

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