Roadblock Quotes

• For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspiring, Success, Failure

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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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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• Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

  Orrin Woodward

  Journey, Doubt, Mind

  Twitter post from Jun 08, 2016

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• Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

  Denis Waitley

  Determination, Wrestling, Giving

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• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Purpose

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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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• Sometimes when we’re focused on quickly getting to our destination, we’ll encounter unexpected roadblocks and detours.  Always remember that there’s more than one path that will lead you to where you’re going.  Who knows?  You might just enjoy that new, more scenic route!

  Clifton Anderson

  Detours, Might, Path

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• All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead.

  Tony Robbins

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Successful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jun 11, 2012

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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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• To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspiration, Achievement, Challenges

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• Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Destiny, Men

  Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa

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• You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit.

  Suze Orman

  Opportunity, Benefits

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• The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us want to give up the journey, but frustrations signal the need to pause for introspection and redirection. Frustrations are promptings from God to search our souls even more deeply to find our power and purpose, and to live it. Frustrations tell us that our thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with our desires.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Dream, Giving Up, Frustration

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.64, Anchor

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• When you are starting a business or going down any challenging endeavor, you are bound to encounter challenges. You are going to hit many roadblocks and obstacles. These are obstacles that would make any sane person want to throw in the towel and quit. If you want your business to succeed, you can’t do that (duh).

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Encounters, Duh

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Nba, Trying

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

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• See challenges vs. roadblocks.

  Robyn Benincasa

  Challenges

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• Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

  Kitty Kelley

  Perseverance, People, Walks

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• I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Fighting, Talking

  Barack Obama's Victory Speech in Chicago, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• There will be roadblocks but we will overcome them.

  DJ Khaled

  Overcoming

  "5 Tips For Marketing To Generation Z" by Deep Patel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2016.

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• The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  People, Joy, Growth

  Mary E DeMuth (2013). “The Wall Around Your Heart: How Jesus Heals You When Others Hurt You”, p.53, Thomas Nelson

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• Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!

  Robert H. Schuller

  Determination, Progress, Impossible

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• Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.

  Christine Pelosi

  Dream, House, Deportation

  "Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Opportunity, Halfway There, Challenges

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• If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Issues, World, Laptops

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