Quotes About Obstacles

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

The only way around is through.

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.

All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Every Journey has it's own set of dark tunnels, diversions, exits and sources of lights. If we are not focussed enough, we will keep wandering and wandering in the dark tunnels.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do something, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.

If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.

If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life.

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

If this is what you love and music is your passion, it's always ways to get through things and find ways to get around things.

Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.