Obstacles

24 quotes.

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

  Marcus Aurelius

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

  Attributed to Henry Ford

• A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.

  Attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

  Horace

• Every problem is just an opportunity waiting to be made use of.

  Anonymous

• Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.

  Tony Robbins

• He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

• It is difficult to say what is impossible For the dream of yesterday, is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

  Robert H.Goddard

• Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine...[your] values and goals...Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

  Marsha Sinetar

• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  Louis D. Brandeis

• Necessity does everything well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

  Publilius Syrus

• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James Baldwin

• Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

  Stephen Covey

• So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness - united, such strength of self-assertion that no ordinary obstacles, differences, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big.

  Anonymous

• The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

  Frank C. Carlucci

• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere, French playwright

• The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Chinese Proverb

• The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain.

  Ankit Jamwal

• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

  Richard David Bach

• You can't put a Band-Aid on every boo-boo you've made; some just need time to heal...

  Christina Montano

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

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