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Source: An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard

“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.”

People Inspirational Writing Believe Book Faces Belief Differences Ability Inspiring Obstacles Crafts Persistence Sheer

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.”

Stills Faces Challenges Overcoming Obstacles Plenty Motivated Overcoming Challenges Hurdle Hurdling Obstacles

Author:Andre Agassi

“People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.”

People Happiness Fear Obstacles Happy Hang Ups Personal Happiness

Author:Lucinda Williams

“The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.”

Men Doe Use Challenges Overcoming Bravery Adversity Brave Obstacles Scary Brave Man

Book:The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)

Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)

“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”

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

Thinking Kids Courses Teach Strategy Obstacles Critical Resilience Critical Thinking Resourcefulness

Author:Naomi Wolf

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

“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”

Knows Joy Overcoming Obstacles Triumph Labour

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

“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.”

Ifs Way Want Matter Done Enough Pain Jobs Desire Circumstances Obstacles Get It Done

Author:Jack Youngblood

“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.'”

Knows Way Looks Light Voice Walks Common Wonder Journey Childhood Keys Obstacles Woods Distraction Usual Exhausted

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.”

Believe Left Religious Views Class Atheism Majors Intellectual Obstacles Superstitions Primitive Renewal Respectable Influential Stance

Author:Robert Bork

“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.”

Knows Needs Moving Our Lives Resources Obstacles Resilience Realising Reserves

Author:Abdul Kalam

“Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.”

Important Motivational Success Sports Roles Achieve Models Overcoming Difficulty Perseverance Metaphor Athlete Obstacles Persistence Role Models Odds Inspirational Sports Great Inspirational Sports

Author:Bill Bradley

“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.”

“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.”

Ends Enough Natural Mystery Conditions Work Out Obstacles Disaster Insurmountable

Author:Tom Stoppard

“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.”

Wells Looks Fate Obstacles Welcome Indifference Satire Hopeless Indulge Indulge In Fate Love

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.”

Humans Obstacles Dogmatism Human Happiness

Author:Bertrand Russell

“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.”

Giving Trying Mean Helping Suffering Courses Given Goal Realizing Giving Up Perseverance Obstacles Active Objectives Characteristics Opposition Righteous Lds No Failure

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“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.”

“Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”

Life Mind Believe Success Achievement Capable Expectations Weakness Overcoming Plant Obstacles Seeds Believe In Yourself Anticipate

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.”

Men Way Believe Doe Shows Forget Movement Late Blind Obstacles Faster Riders Carts Precipice Religion And Politics

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with - - and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power.”

People Knows World Trying Song Wind Needed Opposites Filled Slave Obstacles Speed Compare Nightmare Hitting Ideological Drifting Superstitious Miscarriage

Book:Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait

Source: Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait

“If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Stills Self Lasts Order Universe Winning Moral Our Lives Stage Circumstances Harmony Breaths Obstacles Developing Constraints Peace Of Heart

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

“What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.”

World Needs Next Father Break This World Obstacles Driving Indifference Uncles Brutes Nephew

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.”

Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Mind Firsts Doe Stills Purpose Night Dark Clear Obstacles Arise Clarity One Way Persevere

Author:Giovanni Boccaccio

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

“Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.”

Way Love Years Matter Choices Passion No Matter What Obstacles Commit Temptation Again And Again Fidelity

Author:Emily Giffin

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.”

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

Littles Matter Hard Age Happened Sky Hard Work Rounds Refuse Obstacles Ruins Fallen Tragic Smooth Habitat

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.”

World Way Mean Matter Done Mets Conscience No Matter What Obstacles Categories Divided Smallest Congratulations Portuguese

Author:Jean Ferris

“A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.”

Should Lost Path Alive Risk Bears Privilege Obstacles Minorities Buried Stranded Avalanches

Book:The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is served, except when a can won't open. That's the way she is: fine unless something goes wrong and that minor obstacle becomes a huge wall she can't scale. She becomes helpless whenever things don't go smoothly, or exactly as she imagined them.”

Way Trying Bigs Mother Fans Huge Wall Fine Obstacles Dinner Scales Minors Helpless Precision Incompetence

Book:As Simple as Snow

Source: As Simple as Snow

“Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”

People Ifs Way Want Would Be Joy Dies Heaven Christ Seeing Goes On All Things Overcoming Forgiving Obstacles Sinner Everlasting Savoring

Author:John Piper

“Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”

Way Giving Break Obstacles Be You

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

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