Quotes About Obstacles

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

It is a hard thing to break through a habit and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles how wilt thou overcome greater ones Withstand thy will at the beginning and unlearn an evil habit lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring ...and what joy to others methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.

I know from my experience as a Navy SEAL that barriers work.

Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.

I always focus on the negatives.

Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to get away from it.

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

I knew guys in my neighborhood who should have made it somewhere but got stuck. I wasn't raised like that.

Barriers today are largely class-based - income, networks, education. And those affect many white people as well.

Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door.

I think sometimes with a young team, you just need to get over that initial hump to get to that next level.

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

In other words, it is impossible: we cannot function properly, and the evening ends in confusion and awkwardness, and very early.

Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs.

There were no more hurdles. Now all they had to do was walk, and see how far they could get.

En todas las cosas humanas, cuando se examinan de cerca, se demuestra que no pueden apartarse los obstáculos sin que de ellos surjan otros.