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.
- Topic: Adversity, Dedication, Obstacles, Perseverance, Persistence
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The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
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Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
No garden is without its weeds.
Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
A setback only paves the way for a comeback.
I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.
We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to a process.
Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in the state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, “What’s your secret?” and I will tell them, “I just get up again when I fall down.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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.
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
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.
One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late—not now, not ever—for you to pursue you passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Faced with a mountain, I will not quit. I will keep on striving until I climb over it, find a path through it, tunnel under it, or simply stay and turn it into a gold mine.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.
