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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn
It's difficult to discern the blessing in the midst of brokenness. Certain circumstances in life hurt, at times so intensely that we think we will never heal. After brokenness, we can experience God's greatest blessings. The dawn after a very dark and storm-wracked night is glorious. Joy after a period of intense mourning can be ecstatic. Brokenness is what God uses to replace our self-life with his desires and intents for us. Its end is blessing far greater than we could ever discover apart from being broken. It's spiritual maturity and joyous intimacy with God. Greater depth and power in our ministry to others. New dimensions of freedom, strength, and peace. And a wholeness that comes as God himself reassembles us into someone more closely resembling Jesus Christ.
Dr. Charles Stanley
People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
Stuart Briscoe
A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief. The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed ... The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams, letter to her son
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
James G. Bilkey
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
Les Brown
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.
C.S. Lewis
Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Zig Ziglar
When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Jean de la Bruyere
Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.
Source Unknown
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goals you are trying to reach.
Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out, Don't give up though the race seems slow, You may succeed with another blow, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And be near when it seems so far, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worse, That you must not quit.
It takes a little courage, and a little self -- control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit.
Bumps are the things we climb on.
Warren Wiersbe
