Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Obstacles

To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone.
David J. Schwartz (1927–87) American Self-help Author

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren’t grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick (b.1928) American Novelist, Short-story Writer, Essayist

Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don’t succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.
Unknown

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
James Lane Allen (1849–1925) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
Les Brown

There’s always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain’t happy.
Unknown

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “Failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford (1893–1979) American-Canadian Actor, Producer

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur

When man meets an obstacle he can’t destroy, he destroys himself.
Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932–2007) Polish Journalist

Do Not Quit
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit…
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit…
It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit.
Edgar Guest (1881–1959) English-born American Poet, Radio Personality, TV Personality

Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men … have lived. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality…. In whatever arena of life one may meet the challenge of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience—the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men—each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient—they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur

The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture

The obstacle is the path.
Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist

Usually obstacles are the things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah More

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Polymath, Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Architect

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American Self-help Guru, Entrepreneur

It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There’s no easy path to glory, There’s no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it’s prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don’t know when to quit.
Anonymous

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; ‘Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British Essayist, Physician

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer

I have learned that 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 while trying to succeed. Out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race.
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American Educationist

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American Historian, Academic, Attorney, Writer

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.
Alfred A. Montapert (1906–97) American Engineer, Philosopher

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