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Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right

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

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

...cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And both, deep down, really believe the rules don't apply to them.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.

The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

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

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through.