Quotes About Obstacles

In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or too harshly. The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

Success is not to be measured so much by the status one has attained in life but rather by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragements he would not give up. Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you. Those

Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

My whole soul was so bent upon reaching Hampton that I did not have time to cherish any bitterness toward the hotel-keeper.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

He aprendido que el exito, no se mide tanto por la posicion que uno ha alcanzado en la vida, como por los obstaculos, que se han tenido que superar en el esfuerzo por el triunfo.

Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life; it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere. The great art is to get and to keep out of them.

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

Life is filled with trapdoors.

Every successive failure leads us one step closer to success. Thank God for our failures, those painful walls we hit that define the seemingly invisible boundaries of our lives, ever redirecting us, like guiding lights, down the winning paths to all our victories.

you climb the top of the first tiny hill and from there you see the next hill

THE WAY YOU WALK IS THORNY, MY SON, THROUGH NO FAULT OF YOUR OWN.

Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

Genius overcomes all obstacles.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life," Eri finally said. "And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn't anticipated arises instead. It's not that easy to get free of them.

Most of the troubles in life come on all of a sudden.

You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them.

True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our being, but where there's a WILL-- much less a strong will to swim thirty laps or run twenty kilometers -- there's a way to overcome most any trouble with whatever stepladders you have around.