#obstacles

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#amazing #dreams #extraordinary #growing #growing up

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

— Henry Ford

#eyes #frightful #goal #obstacles #off

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #i think #needs #obstacles #romance

Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#been #blast #coming #definitely #full

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

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 slink out of sight. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#bluff #cowards #eye #liable #like

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#before #boldly #instead #make #make up

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#find #hard #i #mantle #many

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

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#develop #fade #formulate #hold #imagination