Obstacles aren't road blocks, they're stepping stones.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

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.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

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.

Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.

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

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.

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.

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

Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.