Greatest Obstacles Quotes - Page 3

• He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blow, Wind, Sailing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.688, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Obstacles, Truth Is, Discovering

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• The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Enlightenment, Obstacles

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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Wisdom, Self, Doubt

  The Blithedale Romance ch. 2 (1852)

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• He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Success, Wind

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• But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Giving Up, Moving, Don't Give Up

  Source: progressive.org

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• The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Pain, Obstacles, Pleasure

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Impact, Doubt, Answers

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jun 17, 2016

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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hero, Self, Doubt

  The Blithedale Romance ch. 2 (1852)

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• But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown, consists . . . in the bounties, premiums, and other aids which are granted, in a variety of cases, by the nations, in which the establishments to be imitated are previously introduced.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Successful, Branches

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States”, p.93

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• Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Issues, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 01, 2013

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