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"Life is about obstacles. Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens. Not by what life brings us, but the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts."
Wade Boggs, inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame in July, 2005

"Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia."
-- Alexis Carrel, Nobel Laureate in Medicine

"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
-- Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert

"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 (1856-1915) Educator

"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
-- Maxwell Maltz

"When you feel you've pushed your life to the limit, and you can't go any further, give that obstacle one last push because that might be the one that gets you through that heavy door to success. If you don't try that one last time, you may never know. Go for it."
-- Sarah Margaret Bradbury

"Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it."
-- Kitty Kelley

"For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."
-- Father Alfred D'Souza

"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
-- Henri Frédéric Amiel

"Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths."
--Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher (55AD–135AD)

"No person can be confronted with a difficulty which he has not the strength to meet and subdue...Every difficulty can be overcome if rightly dealt with; anxiety is, therefore, unnecessary. The task which cannot be overcome ceases to be a difficulty and becomes an impossibility...and there is only one way of dealing with an impossibility - namely to submit to it."
-- James Allen, Byways of Blessedness

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

"Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
-- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Scientist, Inventor, Artist

"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."
-- Michael Jordan

"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
-- Albert Schweitzer

OPPORTUNITY LIES IN THE MIDST OF DIFFICULTY

Every problem you encounter has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.
The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

You'll find that every situation, properly perceived, offers you an opportunity.
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it.
No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it.
You'll discover new directions when you have an open mind and a willing hand.

Successful people didn't achieve their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them.
They developed an opportunity that was at hand.

You must make your own opportunities if you want to be successful.
Opportunity is all around you.

©2004 by Max Steingart www.maxsteingart.com
Reproduce freely but maintain © notice

"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

"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty and every difficulty has an opportunity."
--J. Sidlow Baster

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose—a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve."
-- John Maxwell

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever..."
-- Isak Dinesen

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
-- William E. Channing (1780-1842), Unitarian minister and reformer

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
-- L.P. Sanadhya

"It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson."
-- Emmet Fox

"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
-- Victor Kiam