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“I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.”

Giving Hard Opportunity Focus Hard Work Giving Up Obstacles Not Giving Up

Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

“I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.”

People Ifs Want Real Stories Kids Guy Can Do Growing Up Growing Share Type Obstacles Insight Hey Relate This Guy Nurturing Seals

Author:Howard E. Wasdin

“Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.”

Way Walks Negative Obstacles

Author:Nik Wallenda

“Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development”

Children Country Whole Lying Waiting Silence Millions Fields Development Weapons Obstacles Innocent Village Buried Livelihood Cultivation Reconstruction Landmines

Author:Kofi Annan

“Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.”

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

“If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.”

Ifs World Way Trying Christian Heaven This World Citizens Obstacles Christian Inspirational Godly

Author:Vance Havner

“There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.”

Knows Men Christian Grows Christianity Greater Comfort Harder Obstacles Settling Faithful Dependent Approval Spine Christian Faith

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.”

Knows Needs Faces Sacrifice Obstacles

Author:Alex Flinn

“I refuse to believe today will be just another day in my life. All that I am. All that I will become will be written through my thoughts and my actions. I've conditioned my mind. Trained my body. Sacrificed my soul. There will be obstacles. Doubters. Mistakes. But nothing comes to those who wait. Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”

Giving Mind Believe Soul Body Today Action Waiting Mistake Written Giving Up Refuse Obstacles My Soul Champion My Thoughts Another Day Doubters Those Who Wait

Author:Kai Greene

“The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.”

Believe Heart Ideas States I Believe Economic Needed My Heart Obstacles Connected Narrow-minded

Author:Albert Einstein

“If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.”

Source: American Institutions and Their Influence

“Timidity puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them.”

Path Obstacles Boldness Timidity

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Success is overcoming obstacles on the way to your dreams.”

Way Dream Overcoming Obstacles Your Dreams

Book:Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families

Source: Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families

“To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer...that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.”

Writing Character Inspiration Able Order Simple Offers Succeed Singing Appreciate Overcoming Adversity Obstacles Overcoming Adversity Simple Things Order To Succeed Obstacle In Life

Author:Elliott Yamin

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

Humans Has Beens Age Love Is Source Behavior Obstacles Human Behavior Defects Greatest Obstacles

Author:Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

“I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.”

Men Culture Powerful Power Independent Obstacles Tendencies Aggression Disposition Innate

Author:Sigmund Freud

“It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.”

Men Helping Difficulty Obstacles Facility

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.”

Artist Greatness Obstacles Great Art Constraints Great Artist Springboards

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.”

Persons Enough Character Seems Might Able Fall Opportunity Numbers Records Overcoming Encouragement Perseverance Obstacles Contribution Teamwork Collaboration Risen

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won.”

Earth Spiritual Purpose Force Prayer Victory Difficulty Obstacles Accomplish Gods Will Satan Initiative Offensive Opposing Prevailing Prevailing Prayer

Author:Wesley L Duewel

“Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.”

Humans Fighting Natural Conditions Military Dangerous Obstacles Resistance Uncertain Hazards Formidable

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.”

Hands Faces Sports Excellence Obstacles Planning Silver Motivational Sports Preparing Silver Platter

Author:Terry Orlick

“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”

Inspirational Inspiration Records Majority Rewards Obstacles Objectives Former Latter Problem Solving Oblivion

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome.”

Matter Motivational Spirit Difficult Challenges Wind Overcoming Wings Perseverance Obstacles Spread Lifts Wrestling

Author:Roy Lessin

“The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when the back of greed is broken, the human spirit soars into regions of unselfishness. I believe that it is safe to say there can be no continuous revival without 'hilarious' giving. And I fear no contradiction: wherever there is 'hilarious' giving there will soon be revival!”

“When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.”

God Seems Happens Christian Religious Effort Obstacles Gods Will

Book:To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

Source: To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.”

People Has Beens Real Hard Body Law Science Given Heaven Simple Planets Machines Rounds Various Obstacles Labour Spheres Fluid Circuits Impervious

Author:Tycho Brahe

“Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.”

Firsts Shows Courses Water Sea Rivers Fishes Obstacles Boat Lakes Fishing

Book:The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring

Source: The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring

“Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.”

May Ends Kindness Produce Promise Profit Obstacles Deceit Falsehood Cheat Distrust Convenience Deceiver

Book:The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.”

Giving Mind May Helping Feelings Obstacles Ease Encounters Insecurity Remove Cultivating Religious Traditions

Book:In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy

Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy

“The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.”

Mind Reason Stories Faces Force Objects Importance Obstacles Pursue

Author:Madame de Stael

“Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.”

“Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.”

Wish Goal Achieve Bigger Difficulty Series Obstacles

Author:Brian Tracy

“You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.”

Thinking Enough Dream Process Regard Obstacles Alternatives Accomplished Convince Realistic

Book:Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

Source: Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

“Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.”

Greater Equal Benefits Advantage Opposites Obstacles Seeds Disadvantages Setback

Author:Napoleon Hill

“I don't think that neutrality is an obstacle to Austria's successful integration into European and world structures... but this is a question that the Austrian people themselves must decide.”

People Thinking World Successful Structure Obstacles Integration Neutrality Austria

Author:Vladimir Putin

“You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.”

Way Can Do Creativity Creative Obstacles Impulse Smooth

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.”

Ifs Choices President Obstacles Convinced France Stakes Renewal Personnel Right Choices Make The Right Choice Modernization

Author:Alain Juppe

“When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.”

Water Creative Talent Resources Flow Including Obstacles Encounters Creative Work Work Flow

Author:Eric Maisel

“So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".”

Mind May Said Accepting Practice Clear Anxiety Enlightenment Difficulty Ancient Obstacles This Life Deliverance Disturbance Hindrance Burnt Out

Author:Kyongho

“My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.”

Action Greater Fields Limits Obstacles Meaningful Surround

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.”

Self Use Success Inspiring Business Obstacles Limitation Happy Life Balanced Illusory Balanced Life

Author:Louis Tice

“The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.”

Country Ready Europe Army Obstacles Quitting France Faithful Establishment Sole Thrones Oath Emperor

Book:Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c

Source: Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c

“Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?”

Want Cutting Figures Succeed Army Obstacles Paris Crowns

Book:A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon: With Explanatory Notes

Source: A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon: With Explanatory Notes

“Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.”

Should Believe Women Overcoming Obstacles Stamina Reservations

Book:As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister

Source: As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister

“God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.”

Politics Given Force Power Overcoming Obstacles

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear”

Christian Imagination Difficulty Obstacles Christian Inspirational Stop Worrying Magnification

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.”

Believe Enough Struggle Overcoming Obstacles Stamina

Author:Golda Meir

“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”

Inspirational Form Spirit Peace Growth Violence Adversity Democratic Obstacles Intolerance Slander Non Violence General Assembly

Book:The Message of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Message of Mahatma Gandhi