#obstacles

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

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

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#certain #get #got #individual #obstacles

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#carry #confidence #criticisms #crystallize #deadline

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

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. ↗

— Sally Ride

#long #long time #obstacles #put #sciences

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation. ↗

— Rick Scott

#creation #job #job creation #motivation #obstacles

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#invented #like #maze #obstacles #ones