- Nov 07, 2020
Obstacles Quotes
Words on overcoming challenges and setbacks
These obstacles quotes describe minds and skills that grow stronger by working through difficulty rather than avoiding it, including the image of a sailor navigating close to the wind despite the greatest Challenges.
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
- Arising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call on Russia and the United States of America, the cosponsors of the peace conference, to help the peace process take bigger steps by contributing to the process and helping to overcome all obstacles.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
- Message
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.
- Biggest Obstacle
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- Nov 07, 2020