Quotes about Obstacles

If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything.

If you can't move a mountain by faith, move it by carrying away stone by stone.

The greatest mountain anyone can conquer is fear.

Your greatest obstacles usher you to your greatest rewards.

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

Begin to notice what you have in your life that you are grateful for and when you look at life through the lens of gratitude, you don't see as many obstacles or hindrances. You see potential, you see possibilities. Then you become an open vehicle for more inspiration, more wisdom, more guidance, coming from the spiritual part of your being. — Michael Bernard Beckwith