Obstacles Quotes

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

~ Walter Scott

Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't require forms of ID that folks don't have. We shouldn't restrict days or hours that allow working people a chance to both do their job and exercise their democratic right, and we damn well shouldn't be throwing up new obstacles midstream.

~ Donna Brazile

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

~ Alfred P. Sloan

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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

~ Zig Ziglar

Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.

~ Stella Mccartney

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

~ Chris Van Hollen

We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.

~ Lionel Sosa

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

~ Bobby Scott

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

~ Henry Ford

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.

~ Booker T. Washington

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

~ Og Mandino

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

~ Booker T. Washington

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

~ Maria Montessori

Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices, they generally do not have the marketing capabilities or budgets to build powerful global brands.

~ Nirmalya Kumar

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

~ Sally Ride

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

~ Bertrand Russell