Obstacles Quotes - Page 36

• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  Sally Ride

  Long, Way, Wanted

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• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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  If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 8 Jan. 2001. One of "Rumsfeld's Rules."

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• Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, Best Job, Goal

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Fear, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A Fresh Look at Empiricism 1927-42”

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• If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

  Howard Schultz

  Passion, Enthusiasm, Succeed

  "Good C.E.O.'s Are Insecure (and Know It)". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2010.

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• Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Democracy, Rebellious, Bureaucracy

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.206, Routledge

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• Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

  Rick Scott

  Jobs, Motivation, America

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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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• I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

  Peter Singer

  America, Going Away, United States

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• There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Leadership, Courage, Ambition

  Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

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• To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Education, Eye, Way

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

  James Surowiecki

  Simple, Ideas, Want

  "The Regulation Crisis". www.newyorker.com. June, 2010.

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• The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Book

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• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

  Naomi Wolf

  Kids, Thinking, Resilience

  "This pampered private school elite can only lead to US decline" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

  Jack Youngblood

  Jobs, Pain, Desire

  "The Mental Edge: Maximize Your Sports Potential with the Mind-body Connection". Book by Kenneth Baum and Richard Trubo, 1999.

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• Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'

  Ravi Zacharias

  Journey, Keys, Light

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• When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

  Abdul Kalam

  Moving, Resilience, Needs

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Climbing

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• the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

  Tom Stoppard

  Work Out, Mystery, Enough

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• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Indulge In, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dogmatism, Humans, Human Happiness

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• For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

  Helen Keller

  Running, Fall, Struggle

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.62, Om Books International

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• Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic...It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Mean

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• I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Believe, Learning

  "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

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