“You know, I think when you have it hard in high school, you turn out to be, like, a way more interesting adult.”— Alan Yang, Colleen McGuinness, Andre, Jason Mitchell, imdb.com
“We keep struggling. Making due and going on, cause that's all there is.”— Sam Sheridan, Fauna Hodel, India Eisley, imdb.com
“Every mountain is 'unclimbable' until someone climbs it. So every ship is 'unsinkable' until it sinks.”— Julian Fellowes, Brendan Coyle, Robert Crawley, Hugh Bonneville, imdb.com
“The obstacles in our life can only do two things: stop us dead in our tracks, or force us to get creative.”— Amy Purdy, lewishowes.com
“Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You take away all obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.”— Gene L. Coon, James T. Kirk, William Shatner, imdb.com
“Obstacles are placed across our path in life, not to be boggled at but to be surmounted.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“To see an obstacle as a challenge, to make the best of it anyway, that is also a choice—a choice that is up to us.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“Life is one hell of a thing to happen to a person.”— Edward Allen Bernero, David Rossi, Joe Mantegna, imdb.com
“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”— Theodore Roosevelt, bartleby.com
“Your life problems can offer you meaning. Your mess can become your message. Your test can become your testimony.”— Jordan Bach, twitter.com
“All obstacles that are perceived with love can transform into the greatest life lessons.”— Gabby Bernstein, twitter.com
“Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Be aware of a physical pulling-away. If he's giving signs that he's trying to put actual distance between the two of you, don't start picking out china patterns just yet. Any form of obstacle he puts in the way of being with you — be it leaning backwards, tensing his face, or looking over your head…”— Melissa Lafsky, yourtango.com
“The 3 and a half years of business training I had in that commission house formed a large part of the foundation of my business training.”— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com
“The old pioneer days are gone, with their roughness and their hardship, their incredible toil and their wild half-savage romance. But the need for pioneer virtues remains the same as ever... We must insist upon courage and resolution upon hardihood, tenacity, and futility in resource, go we must ins…”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.”— Unknown, Zen Story, motivateus.com
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com