Quotes About Obstacles

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.

Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

Misfortunes come to all men.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

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

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

Every path has its puddle.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in.

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.