This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

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“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Obstacles Quotes

1. Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. - Jeffrey Gitomer

2. Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small. - Orison Swett Marden

3. Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. - Orison Swett Marden

4. Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. - Barbara Sher

5. To fight fear, act. To increase fear…wait, put off, postpone. - David J. Schwartz

6. 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

7. The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. - Helen Keller

8. Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. - Zig Ziglar

9. Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they come 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 kept going regardless of the obstacles they met. - W. Clement Stone

10. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. - Jean Baptiste Moliere

11. 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

12. What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. - Sidlow J. Baxter

13. You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life. - Les Brown

14. When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. - Denis Waitley

15. It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved. - Samuel Smiles

16. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Hannah More

17. 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. - Og Mandino

18. Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. - Robert H. Schuller

19. The obstacle is the path. - Zen Saying

20. 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

21. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. - Thomas Paine

22. For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. - Bette Howland

23. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams

24. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. - Wayne Dyer

25. 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

26. 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

27. Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. - Christian D. Larson

28. 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

29. It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M. Bristol

30. What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. - Sidlow J. Baxter

31. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. - Helen Keller

32. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay Ash

33. For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. - Bette Howland

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