Obstacles Quotes - Page 12

• The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method

  Colin Powell

  Team, Overcoming, Method

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• Wake up knowing that Allah is greater than any obstacle you may face today.

  Omar Suleiman

  Knowing, Wake Up, May

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Feb 08, 2013

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• The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.

  Miranda July

  Art, Stupid, Might

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• Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.

  J. Cole

  Dream, Like You

  Song: The Autograph, Album: Friday Night Lights, 2010

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• The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it

  Brian Tracy

  Keys, Goal, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 27, 2013

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• When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ocean, Moving, Sunset

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• Sometimes you need to be terrified to your bones, in order for you to find your way to safety. Pain somewhat has this ability to push you beyond your comfort zone so that you can come back even stronger. To me, obstacles are not a hindrance but as stepping stones to success.

  Rita Zahara

  Pain, Order, Safety

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• Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

  Jon Stewart

  Good Night, Good Luck, Pieces

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• When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak. And being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are.

  Bob Harper

  Mean, Gay, Years

  "'Biggest Loser' trainer Bob Harper reveals he's gay" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

  PJ Harvey

  Lucky, Way, Found

  "Shy girl or she-wolf? Will the real Polly Harvey please stand up". Interview With Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

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• Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

  Mike Tyson

  Crush, Fire, Rolling

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• With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

  Octavio Paz

  Wall, Rocks, Air

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• We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Positive Thinking, Firsts

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• Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.

  Bernard Brodie

  Men, Animal, Drug

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• Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Order, People, Overcoming

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• Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Important, Overcoming, Essentials

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• The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

  Michael Meade

  Block, Real, Life Changing

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• The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men.
  In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man.

  Norman Angell

  Hate, Heart, Men

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.

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• [On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Sex, Freedom, Men

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• It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Growth, Bumps, Way

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• Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

  Monte Irvin

  Heart, Winning, Overcoming

  "Monte Irvin: Nice Guys Finish First". Book by Monte Irvin, www.washingtonpost.com. 1996.

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• It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, May

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Overcoming, Path

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• These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Doubt, Trying, Quiet

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• Biggest obstacle to learning is thinking you already know.

  Mike Erre

  Thinking, Knows, Biggest Obstacles

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