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Quotes About Obstacles

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.
~ Ninette de Valois
You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
~ Steve Ballmer
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
~ Orison Swett Marden
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
~ Jeff Beck
Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.
~ Marijane Meaker
People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.
~ Donald Trump
The road to success is long and up hill all the way
~ John C. Maxwell
For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure.
~ Christopher Titus
Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.
~ Brian Tracy
Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.
~ Julien Smith, The Flinch
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
~ Booker T. Washington
I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
~ Michael Jordan
I have learned that failure is a part of success; it's part of the learning curve. Sometimes you have to walk that road to achieve big things.
~ Luis Gerardo Mendez
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.
~ Major Taylor
Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
~ Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Failure is a stepping stone to success.
~ Arianna Huffington
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success
~ Eric Hoffer
Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.
~ Tim Fargo
If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.
~ Ralph Marston
Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.
~ Milton Sapirstein
Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.
~ Edwin Catmull
The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.
~ Napoleon Hill
Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.
~ Wayne Huizenga