Favorite Quotations ~  Obstacles, 2 Little Book of Big Feared Truths

"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

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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

You would be surprised how many people quit when faced with obstacles. As every good salesman knows, everything may not be possible today, but sooner or later it is possible. ~ Earl G. Graves

Obstacles are like wild animals: They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see that 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

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them. ~ Robert Zemeckis

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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