Overcoming Obstacles Quotes

The true way of dealing with trial is not by seeking to escape it, but by transforming it.

Ellen G White

Face adversity willingly, be vulnerable to delay.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Theodore Roethke

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.

Rikki Rogers

Don’t complain about water because its wet or rocks because they’re hard.

Focus on possibilities rather than your limitations.

Nick Vujicic

Real difficulties can be overcome; It is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

Theodore N Vail

The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is how you use them.

Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.

J Gitomer

Every obstacle serves a purpose.

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John R Wooden

Hardship is not simply to be eliminated, but harnessed for redemptive good.

No pain, no palm; no thorns no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

William Penn

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller

A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God before Whom no other power has any meaning and for Whom there is no such things as an obstacle.

Thomas Merton

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who accept the one principle of making the service of God supreme, will find perplexities vanish and a plain path before their feet.

Ellen G White

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

Live as though you can do anything you dream of doing. Even when you suffer a setback or a tragedy, there is often an unexpected, totally improbable, and absolutely impossible benefit to be realised.

Nick Vujicic

Our lives may seem a tangle; but as we commit ourselves to the wise Master Worker, He will bring out the pattern of life and character that will be to His own glory.

Ellen G White

Only by pursuing the way, progressing through its joys, hardships and apparent detours, can the pilgrim arrive at the destination.

God can solve the most difficult problems for minds that believe in Him.

Ellen G White

Celebrate your successes, no matter how small, and don’t dwell on your mistakes. One will spur you on and remind you of the passion that started you off, and the other will just hold you back.

I have only a few reasons to keep running, and a truckload of them to quit.

Murakami

God can turn your biggest mountain into a grain of sand.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our own life, or in the life of another

Helen Keller

I have learned that 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 while trying to succeed.

Booker T Washington

A man whose heart is stayed upon God is just the same in the hour of his most afflicting trials and most discouraging surroundings as when he was in prosperity, when the light and favour of God seemed to be upon him.

Ellen G White

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

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

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

Frank A Clark

Quit telling God how big your storm is and tell your storm how big your God is.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African Proverb

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

All are weighed down with burdens that only Christ can remove. The heaviest burden that we bear is the burden of sin. If we were left to bear this burden, it would crush us. But the Sinless One has taken our place.

Ellen G White

God is greater than any problem you have.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

John C Maxwell

Every ship sailing the sea of life needs to have the divine Pilot on board; but when storms arise, when tempests threaten, many persons push their Pilot overboard, and commit their bark into the hand of finite man, or try to steer it themselves.

Ellen G White

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Mark 11:23

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us of which we know nothing. Those who accept the one principle of making the service of God supreme, will find perplexities vanish and a plain path before their feet.

Ellen G White

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

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.

Vera Nazarin

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere