(392 quotes found)
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
John Quincy Adams
“Love alone can overcome obstacles, however many and mighty.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . . . It is that we have put up no obstacles at all. The great strength is in you . . .”
Isak Dinesen
“She saw objectives, not obstacles.”
Wallace Stegner
“Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.”
Crystal Middlemas
“A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski
“We have obstacles in front of us, but my goal and my job[as coach] is to continue to develop our younger players, to get the most and the best out of our veteran players, to not have a losing record, to make the playoffs every year and to lead this organization and this team to a level that it has yet to reach, I always look forward to the challenge and opportunity and I am looking forward to continuing the success of Indiana basketball.”
Isiah Thomas
“Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.”
Robert H. Schuller
“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
“The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.”
John Dewey
