Obstacles Offer Us Choices

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

We have a choice of how we view
the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Photo is of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s.

Further reading: Why is This Happening?

You Need Courage

Draw from Suffering
      

Take Charge of Your Own Life

It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

We have a choice of how we view
the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Photo is of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s.

Further reading: Draw from Suffering

You Need Courage

Why is This Happening?
      

Playing the Cards You Hold

Life consists not in holding good cards
but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings

We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford 

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Further reading: Do What You Can Do

Follow Your Bliss

Choose to Soar

Choosing Your Destination

Making Dreams Come True

Stand Up To Your Obstacles

Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Photo: Talking to relatives across the Berlin Wall 1961.

Further reading: Step by Step

Wanting is Not Enough

What is Defeat?

Choose to Soar

Keep Moving

Beyond Failure

Overcoming

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller

Further reading: Adversity

Obstacles

Quotes about overcoming

Quotes about obstacles

Quotes about adversity

Quotes about storms

Quotes about stress