obstacles

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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

- Leonardo DaVinci

2.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

- Schuller, Robert H.

3.

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.

- Booker T. Washington

4.

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

- Andrew Carnegie

5.

You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.

- Dan Surface

6.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

- Norman Vincent Peale

7.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

- Bristol, Claude M.

8.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved 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 kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

- Clement Stone

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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.

- Stone, W. Clement

10.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

- Caine, Mark

11.

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.

- Bhagavad Gita

12.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

- John Quincy Adams

13.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

- Brown, Les

14.

A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.

- Gunderson

15.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

- Marden, Orison Swett

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Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you'd take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal.

- Hicks, Tyler G.

17.

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.

- Smiles, Samuel

18.

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

- Ramdas, Swami

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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.

- Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

- Washington, Booker T.