overcoming obstacles quotes

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

I had writer’s block for almost a year.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.