Quotes About Obstacles

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.

You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.

Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.

Hate is a scarecrow That frightens all singing birds From the fields of life.

Linni, you have as many answers as you need or are likely to get. Don't ask for more. I learned in the Great War that there are many battles to be fought, and one of the biggest is with the veils that come down around us—with all due respect to that American author, you know, Mr. Steinbeck, I call them the 'drapes of wrath.' They both hide the truth and shield us from the danger behind them.

There's some people who seem to be dealt the wrong hand, and it's just one thing after another.

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

La Voluntad humana, la fuerza invisible, La descendencia de un alma inmortal, Conquista cualquier meta sin importar, Aunque intervengan muros invencibles.

Excuses are leaks in a boat. When you cover one, another pops up, and it's even bigger. It's hard to keep the boat repaired and get safely to shore if you have an excuse mind-set.

With each obstacle, turn it into a moment where you can reflect on the bounty that is in your life.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church.

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There's an old saying, Buck said. A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

It was sometimes said that the only difference between Omaha and the North Pole was all the barbed wire.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn't want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.

I myself have been an underdog. I never got anything easy in the film industry.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll be tested; we gotta pass it.

I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.