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  • He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  • The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

  • Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

    Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
  • 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 “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International
  • Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.

  • It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

  • The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

  • The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

    Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company
  • The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

    William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”
  • He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

    Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS
  • Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

    FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 01, 2013
  • War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

    War   Two   Preparation  
  • My greatest obstacle has to be accepting that the business that I chose to be part of is based on rejection and constantly trying to prove yourself. Letting go of seeing my accent and the way I speak as a limitation. Accepting it as who I am and where I came from.

    "Actor Roselyn Sánchez: On Working in a Business Based on Rejection and Celebrating What Makes her Different". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

    Science   Men   Thinking  
    Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.60, Simon and Schuster
  • 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, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS
  • Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

    Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.123, Simon and Schuster
  • If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

    Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
  • One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  • At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

  • It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

    Taken   Mean   Ambition  
  • The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

  • The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

    "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.
  • When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

    FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 03, 2014
  • 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.

  • Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.

  • Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

    Crush   Fire   Rolling  
  • He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

    Blow   Wind   Sailing  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.688, Simon and Schuster
  • As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

  • But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown, consists . . . in the bounties, premiums, and other aids which are granted, in a variety of cases, by the nations, in which the establishments to be imitated are previously introduced.

    United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States”, p.93
  • Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.

    Twitter post from Nov 26, 2015
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