#obstacle

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ↗

— Henry Ford

#eyes #frightful #goal #obstacles #off

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#common #common sense #community #enlightenment #left

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#built #conquer #environment #find #goals

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

— Og Mandino

#because #careers #comes #countless #defeats

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#former #history #latter #majority #objectives

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. ↗

— Johnny Nash

#gone #i #i can #now #obstacles

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#because #business #death #doing #gentle

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. ↗

— Washington Irving

#create #disadvantage #every #irresistible #minds

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious. ↗

— Carole King

#been #being #career #felt #guess

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#chief #education #faced #fact #freedom