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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.  

- John Quincy Adams  

The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.  

- Bavee  

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  

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.  

- Lawrence Bixby  

The obstacles you face are, mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.  

- Clarence Blasier  

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.  

- Daniel J Boorstin  

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

- Claude M Bristol  

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.  

- Les Brown  

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.  

- Mark Caine  

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.  

- Charles The Bold  

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...  

- Robert Collier  

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.  

- Havelock Ellis  

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.  

- Gunderson  

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.  

- Sir Edmund Hillary  

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  

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.  

- Ryszard Kapuscinski  

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  

A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and this is the basis of all human morality.  

- John F Kennedy  

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  

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  

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.  

- Orison Swett Marden  

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  

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  

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.  

- Molière  

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  

- Hannah More  

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word ''succeed,'' you find that it simply means to follow through.  

- F W Nichol  

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  

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  

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  

Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.  

- Charles E Popplestone  

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself. First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?  

- Jim Rohn  

The obstacle is the path.  

- Zen Saying  

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

- Robert H Schuller  

For every mountain there is a miracle.  

- Robert H Schuller  

To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off postpone.  

- David J Schwartz  

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.  

- Barbara Sher  

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief. The Reality Solution means, Do it before you're ready.  

- Barbara Sher  

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  

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  

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goals you are trying to reach.  

- Source Unknown  

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.  

- Source Unknown  

Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out, Don't give up though the race seems slow, You may succeed with another blow, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And be near when it seems so far, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worse, That you must not quit.  

- Source Unknown  

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

- Source Unknown  

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  

Every sale has five basic obstacles. No need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.  

- Zig Ziglar  

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