Quotes About Obstacles

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Just as a good chief executive officer keeps looking for ways to change because he or she knows that nothing will be the same in five years, so you, too, as the chief executive officer of your own life, must always be looking for better ways to make changes. You must be flexible enough to get around the new obstacles that are looming on the horizon, and you must be willing to change course if you have to.

Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.

The biggest challenges are fixing the problems, to put all the puzzles together.

I love puzzles, challenges, the feeling that you get when you have an obstacle and go through adversity, finding the strength to go on.

If I had grown earlier, maybe I would have stuck with football. Maybe. But I was just too small. I was quick, I could outrun people, but if anyone ever got a hand on me, I was done.

People easily quit their dream because it's not easy.

Fighting, especially at this level, is about getting through adversity. You position yourself mentally to go out and take on obstacles that stand in your way. In the Octagon and in life, you face tough situations and have every chance to quit, but the more adversity you push through, the more likely you are to be successful.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways.

I always encourage employees to feel free to raise any issues that prevent them from getting good work done.

We ran into some bumps in the road at the University of Florida.

No one knows how much we went through to finish 'Furious 7.'

When you get down, your game plan changes a lot and what you're trying to do is eliminated.

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

Just because there's glass on the road don't mean there's been an accident.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

There is a glass ceiling for everybody until you find a way to get that connection that Cena has.

What people need to realize is that when I was elected and put in this role, I was breaking a glass ceiling. What I didn't realize at the time was that I was breaking a glass ceiling that was going to fall on my head and leave a lot of shards of glass that I was going to have to crawl over throughout my time as a leader.

BAME kids get discouraged - too many glass ceilings to break through.

Britain is a country of glass ceilings.

I actually had huge problems with my glasses steaming up all the time. I had to train very carefully around the limitations caused by wearing them.

I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.