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«Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.»
«Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.»
Author: Eric Butterworth
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
accomplishment, muscle, obstacle, strengthening
«The criminal trial today is a kind of show-jumping contest in which the rider for the prosecution must clear every obstacle to succeed.»
«The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Obstacles
| Keywords:
obstacle
«The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Education,
Learning,
Obstacles,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
obstacle, The Authority
«The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.»
«Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
became, becoming, cartoonist, cartoonists, executive, failed, goal, largely, obstacle, springs, spring up, successful
«The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong»
«The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
diversity, faculties, insuperable, obstacle, originate, protection, uniformity
«Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.»
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