Hurdling Obstacles Quotes

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Frank A. Clark

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

Benjamin Carson

Inspirational, Success, Failure

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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Brian Tracy

Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

Brian Tracy, Azim Jamal (2016). “What You Seek Is Seeking You”, p.139, Jaico Publishing House

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Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

"Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

Motivational, Positive, Success

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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

Octavia Spencer

Gay, Race, African American

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From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

Joel Salatin

Safety, Police, Wipe

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On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

Gwen Ifill

White, House, Immigration

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There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Anil Kapoor

Hardship, Faces, Handicaps

Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Inspirational, Strength, Adversity

Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Maya Angelou

Love, Inspirational, Life

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Running

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

Pauline Hanson

Government, Giving, Chance

"Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

Wanda Sykes

Mean, Thinking, Winning

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I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

Andre Agassi

Challenges, Overcoming, Faces

FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Sep 18, 2013

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There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

Lynn Davies

Sports, Athlete, Live Your Life

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Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

John Engler

Employee, Hurdle, Remarkable

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For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

Angela Merkel

Country, Years, Umpires

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

Anne Lamott

Obstacles, Should, Hurdle

Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott (2012). “Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son”, p.91, Penguin

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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Arabella Weir

Needs, Theory, Hurdle

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We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.

Jessica Ennis

Running, Athlete, Jumping

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

Judy Greer

Creative, Sometimes, Ends

"Judy Greer Has the Perfect Solution for Coping With Stress in Her New AOL Short" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. May 5, 2014.

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