Obstacles Quotes - Page 2

• I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Fear

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• A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

  Mark Cane

  Ideas, Overcoming, Barriers

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• If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Our World, Understanding, Looks

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• Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Challenges, Looks, Obstacle In Life

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Errors, Victory, Individual

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• We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Law, Investment, Genuine

  Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Information and Culture (1999). “New dawn”

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• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

  Harri Holkeri

  Challenges, Trying, Advantage

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• Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

  Kim Wilde

  Real, Talent, Real Talent

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• The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

  Jayne Meadows

  People, Overcoming, Knows

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• The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Inspirational, Majority, Records

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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• I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

  Paul Krugman

  Believe, Men, Mind

  "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008". Book by Paul Krugman, 2009.

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• I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Addiction, Progress

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.28, Psychology Press

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Wisdom, Time

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Adversity, Men, Bravery

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1927). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)”

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• You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

  Barbara Sher

  Leadership, Motivation, Real

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.180, Dell

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• Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Confidence, Perseverance, Believe

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

  Wendell Phillips

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.282

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• In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

  Albert Bandura

  Fear, Struggle, Self

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• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

  Havelock Ellis

  Lying, Work, Land

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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