#obstacle

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

#came #each #everyone #going #great

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#against #combat #continuous #errors #individual

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#overcoming-obstacles #pretend #pretentiousness #society #trust

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#rat-race #trying #business

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#eyes #goal #his #obstacles #off

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

— John Quincy Adams

#before #courage #difficulties #disappear #into

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#inevitable #life #meet #need #obstacles

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#education #escaping #greatest #higher #higher education

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#i #i think #isolation #obstacle #political