
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
- Topic: Goals, Obstacles
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Booker T. Washington
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
› Booker T. Washington
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› Dr. Ben Carson
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
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
› Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
› Christopher Columbus
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 overcome while trying to succeed.
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Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
› Norman Vincent Peale
Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.
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