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Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.
Sep 15, 2025
You know, whenever you're shooting a film there's different obstacles and challenges, whether it be from the makeup artist getting fired that you liked or whatever - the one that did the makeup the way you wanted. There's always stuff that changed, like the DP leaving the set, and there's a new guy in there, and the way he does lighting isn't the same as the last guy.
Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
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