“With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.” HandsTurnsStudyFailingExampleHumilityObstaclesIndifferenceGuidanceWarningTrapsBlindnessHazardsConfronting Book:Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature Source: Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature
“It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.” WayWantMovingFailingFiguresDifficultyObstaclesMoving ForwardKeep MovingKeep Moving Forward Author:Maya Forbes
“Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent - or confronting any obstacle - that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.” PeopleTryingMayLongDreamFightingDoubtFailingAchieveNew YorkPromiseObstaclesDenyOpponentsCriticizeI PromiseMayorsConfronting Author:Michael Bloomberg
“when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.” MenWellsHelpingUseChristianPastUsedReligionFatherLanguageReligiousFailingConvictionObstaclesTheologyVocabularyGrammarKnowledge And ExperienceChristian TheologyScholastics Author:Lily Dougall
“People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts” PeopleShouldPersonsSelfFormDoubtCuttingFailingBearsCostActivityTasksPerformancesObstaclesInternalsSignificanceCapabilityUnderestimateSelf-doubtSelf EfficacyRewarding Experiences Author:Albert Bandura
“Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.” HappensMotivationalOpportunityFailingSucceedDetermineObstaclesHandle Author:James Caan
“I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.” IfsFightingSpeakBornPathCuttingFailingDevilLet MeObstaclesRemoveSincerityHypocriteThornsSpeak The TruthFactionsStraight PathQuagmire Author:Martin Luther
“The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them.” IfsProblemOpportunityGoalGrowthPathFailingStonesEmbraceObstaclesQuittingOnly TimeStepping StonesSmall Problems Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders