Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Fear gives intelligence even to fools.

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.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.