Famous Overcoming Obstacle Quotes & Sayings

Funny thing about life is that it never turns out the way you want it to. — S.L. Jennings

In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive — Yvonne Wood

When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones. — Lilias Trotter

The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'. — Stella Gibbons

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first. — Mohamed Al-Fayed

In The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, Smith emphasized that trust, responsibility and accountability exist only in a society that respects them, and only where the spontaneous fruit of human sympathy is allowed to ripen. It is where sympathy, duty and virtue achieve their proper place that self-interest leads, by an invisible hand, to a result that benefits everyone. And this means that people can best satisfy their interests only in a context where they are also on occasion moved to renounce them. Beneath every society where self-interest pays off, lies a foundation of self-sacrifice. — Roger Scruton

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money. — Jim Cramer

Without the gospel, our self-image is based on living up to some standards - either our own or someone else's imposed on us. If we live up to those standards, we will be confident but not humble; if we don't live up to them, we will be humble but not confident. Only in the gospel can we be both enormously bold and utterly sensitive and humble, for we are simul justus et peccator, both perfect and sinner! — Timothy Keller

Once a lie is told, you have to keep on telling it. You not only have to repeat it time and time again, you have to embellish it, layer upon layer until you don't even remember the truth. — Cassie Dandridge Selleck

Failing is not real, it's an optional state of mind. — Behdad Sami

The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone - that is pure hope, rooted in the heart. — David Steindl-Rast

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention. — Rudolf Arnheim

Let your dreams be your North Star. — MaryAnn Koopmann