Quotes About Obstacles

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

The critics don't build great cities

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, "standing still".

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

Hearing God's voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.