Overcoming Obstacles

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

-  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Never, never, never, never give up.

-  Winston Churchill

I can’t change the direction of the wind.  But I can adjust my sails.

Of one fact we can be sure:  Those who won positions of power, who gain recognition, who performed great services for mankind, who sought and found love, who, in whatever their sphere, became fortunate, maintained through thick and thin an affirmative attitude concerning the desires they sought to fulfill.

-  David Seabury

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don’t believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

- George Bernard Shaw

When you believe you can – you can.

- Maxwell Maltz

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit.  Most men succeed because they are determined to.

- George Allen

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures.  Virtually nothing comes out right the first time.  Failures, repeated failures, are posts on the road to achievement.

Tis too shall pass.

-  An old proverb

The world has a lot of starters, but very few finishers.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.  They’re what makes you stretch – to go beyond the norm.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you cannot hang on a minute longer, never give up.  For that is just the time and place that the tide will turn.

One of the nice things about problems is that many of them really don’t exist except in our imagination.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. 

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

-  SunTzu

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always chance for you.  What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

-  Arthur Golden