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Quotes About Obstacles

We deal with them all
~ David Baldacci
Issues. The dreaded word. It seemed so innocuous. Issues. Everyone had issues.
~ David Baldacci
The thing that mostly gets in the way of dialogue," he says, "is holding to assumptions and opinions, and defending them." This instinct to judge and defend, embedded in the selfdefense mechanisms of our biological heritage, is the source of incoherence.
~ David Bohm
No more free steps to heaven. - It's No Game
~ David Bowie
Certain things not only can't be taught but can be retarded by other stuff that can be taught.
~ David Foster Wallace
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
~ William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
~ William Shakespeare
Let not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment...
~ William Shakespeare
Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth;
~ William Shakespeare
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ William Ury
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
~ Winston Churchill
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
~ Winston S. Churchill
A wit wrote ten years ago: "The leaders of thought have reached the horizons of human reason, but all the wires are down, and they can only communicate with us by unintelligible signals.
~ Winston S. Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
~ Winston Spencer Churchill
See how efficient it still is, how it keeps itself in shape-- our century's hatred. How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles. How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
What you can't go through on your own, God will help you fly over.
~ Unknown
The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.
~ Woody Allen
Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.
~ Wu Cheng'en
It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
~ Yann Martel
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction." As
~ Christopher McDougall
extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.
~ Christopher McDougall
Ultra god Scott Jurek summed up the Young Guns' unofficial creed with a quote from William James he stuck on the end of every e-mail he sent: "Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction." As
~ Christopher McDougall
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.
~ Christopher McDougall
it's like in life, you have obstacles and you train to overcome them. You search for the best technique. You keep the best, you repeat it, and then you get better.
~ Christopher McDougall