One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes in times of difficulty can be important role models.

For a long time society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other it seems to me in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband that they belong to each other in the name of Nature and are lovers by Divine right in spite of human convention or the laws.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

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 had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.