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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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It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

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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...

Quotes by Adam Johnson

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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...

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.

Quotes by Yitzhak Shamir

Best Quotes

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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.

Quotes by Yasser Arafat

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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.

Quotes by Wilhelm Wien

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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Quotes by Washington Irving

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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Quotes by Walter Scott

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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.

Quotes by Walter Ulbricht

Challenges Quotes

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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.

Quotes by Walter Gropius

Others acknowledge how early setbacks can complicate any new undertaking. For related reflections, see our Best quotes collection.