Quotes about Obstacles
I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way: you were either in my way, or out of it.
— Kobe Bryant
Often, the difference between what is and what could be is not measured by the length of the track, but rather by the resistance between our ears.
— Kris Vallotton
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
— Booker T. Washington
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.
— Madeleine Albright
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
— Kathleen Norris
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
— Thomas Jefferson
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.
— Norman Vincent Peale
It's the impeded stream that sings.
— Wendell Berry
As you assess your current location and motivation for being an entrepreneur, do not be discouraged by the size or number of obstacles in your path. If you can catch a vision for it then God can do it!
— Bishop TD Jakes
But you cannot go through the Door of Destiny without passing through the Hall of Haters.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The road that gives you fulfillment, purpose, and joy as it takes you to Destiny is always peppered with jealous, envious, and angry people whose venomous darts are aimed squarely in your direction as you travel.
— Bishop TD Jakes