If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
- Topic: Adversity, Obstacles
- Location: Haleakala National Park, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
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Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
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.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
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.
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.
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.
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
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.
Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.
Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
