Greatest Obstacles Quotes:

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Inspirational, Life, Crush, Obstacle In Life, Determination And Persistence

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Life Determination, Decisiveness

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

- Marilyn vos Savant

source: "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Journey To Success, Inspirational Determination

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

topic: Inspiring, Education, Wisdom, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge And Learning

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

topic: Motivational, Stay Strong, Business, Inspiring Business, Daily Challenges

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

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Adversity, Hurdling Obstacles, Strength In Adversity

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Inspirational Adversity, Inspirational Success Failure

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

source: Twitter post from Nov 26, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Change, People, Just Keep Moving, Just Keep Moving Forward

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

- Claude M. Bristol

topic: Determination, Effort, Resistance, Inspirational Determination, Obstacle In Life

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

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

- William Feather

topic: Success, Perseverance, Hard Work, Try Again, Spanish And English

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

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Success, Perseverance, Persistence, Try Again, About Success

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

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Trying, Achieve, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

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

- Christopher Reeve

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Hurdling Obstacles, Overwhelming Force

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

- Marie Curie

source: "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Empowering Women, Perserverance

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

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

- William Edward Hickson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Trying, Try Again, About Success

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Business, Desire, No Trust, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Selling

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

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

- Michael Jordan

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

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.

- Barbara Sher

topic: Courage, Real, Ignorance, Insurmountable, Real Ones

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Motivational, Strength, Crazy, Adverse, Strength In Adversity

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

topic: Confidence, Believe, Persistence, Opposers, Adversity And Perseverance

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

- Joy Page

topic: Inspirational Life, Doe, Obstacles, Greatest Life, Greatest Obstacles

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

- Chris Van Hollen

source: "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

topic: Escaping, Cost, Poverty, Higher Education, Greatest Obstacles

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Joy, Obstacles, Resentment, Greatest Obstacles

Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.

- Si Robertson

topic: Trust In God, Obstacles, Sometimes, Greatest Obstacles

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.

- Cus D'Amato

topic: Fire, Obstacles, Your Best Friend, Greatest Obstacles

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

- Oscar Arias

topic: War, Two, Preparation, Fostering, Greatest Obstacles

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

topic: Crush, Fire, Rolling, Snowball, Greatest Obstacles

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

- Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

topic: Love Is, Age, Obstacles, Human Behavior, Greatest Obstacles

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

- Diane Ravitch

topic: Reform, Complacency, Obstacles, Greatest Obstacles, American Education

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Happiness, Freedom, Responsibility, Inner Peace And Happiness, Spiritual Peace

The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

topic: Practice, Expectations, Meditation, Greatest Obstacles

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

- Christopher Dawson

topic: Understanding, Obstacles, Language, Greatest Obstacles

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

- Roberto Unger

topic: Future, Imagination, Vision, Greatest Obstacles, Transforming The World

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

topic: Ocean, Ignorance, Knowledge, Knowledge And Ignorance, Discovering Something

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

- Pope Pius X

topic: Faithful, Catholic, Church, Greatest Obstacles

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

- Josh Billings

topic: Succeed, Obstacles, Knows, Greatest Obstacles

My greatest obstacle has to be accepting that the business that I chose to be part of is based on rejection and constantly trying to prove yourself. Letting go of seeing my accent and the way I speak as a limitation. Accepting it as who I am and where I came from.

- Roselyn Sanchez

source: "Actor Roselyn Sánchez: On Working in a Business Based on Rejection and Celebrating What Makes her Different". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Letting Go, Who I Am, Rejection, Proving Yourself, Greatest Obstacles

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

- William Ralph Inge

topic: Men, Progress, Obstacles, Incorrigible, Greatest Obstacles

The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

- Walter Wink

topic: Belief, Obstacles, Excuse, Greatest Obstacles

Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.

- Eleanor Brown

topic: Journey, Faces, Obstacles, Greatest Obstacles

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Taken, Mean, Ambition, Divine Will, Resigning