Top 200 Obstacles Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”

— Cheryl Strayed

102. “You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

— James C. Collins

103. “Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.”

— Jim Valvano

104. “If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

105. “No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don’t worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

106. “If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.”

— Mas Oyama

107. “Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!”

— Jon Gordon

108. “Any true champion can bounce back. That’s what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

109. “A setback only paves the way for a comeback.”

— Evander Holyfield

110. “The only one who can tell you “You can’t” is you. And you don’t have to listen.”

— Dean Karnazes

111. “I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.”

— Og Mandino

112. “It’s not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

113. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”

— Arnold Palmer

114. “It’s harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn’t get you anywhere... Only makes you weak.”

— Demi Lovato

115. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”

— Warren Buffett

116. “We all start with zero. We all start at the beginning. Do not give up.”

— Nick Vujicic

117. “Any day that we don’t give up puts us one day closer to success!”

— Joyce Meyer

118. “If I had listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

119. “Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.”

— Taylor Swift

120. “Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.”

— Seneca the Younger

121. “The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can’t jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.”

— Dwayne Johnson

122. “Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.”

— Ronald Reagan

123. “I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger.”

— Ayrton Senna

124. “It matters if you don’t just give up.”

— Stephen Hawking

125. “From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, “I survived.””

— Craig Scott

126. “If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don’t face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.”

— Ray Dalio

127. “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

128. “Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

129. “A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”

— Orison Swett Marden

130. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you.”

— Michael Jordan

131. “They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.”

— Bhagat Singh

132. “You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

133. “Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!”

— Dave Ramsey

134. “There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.”

— Steven Pressfield

135. “It is always too soon to quit.”

— V. Raymond Edman

136. “While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

— Helen Keller

137. “Giving up was never an option.”

— Lance Armstrong

138. “It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life – that’s persistence.”

— Ryan Holiday

139. “If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!”

— Tim Storey

140. “You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

141. “If you can outlast that discomfort, I guarantee you, baby, on the other side of it is success.”

— Eric Thomas

142. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

— Molière

143. “Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

— Carlos Castaneda

144. “Today’s patience can transform yesterday’s discouragements into tomorrow’s discoveries. Today’s purposes can turn yesterday’s defeats into tomorrow’s determination.”

— William Arthur Ward

145. “The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.”

— Richard Branson

146. “The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

147. “If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!”

— Og Mandino

148. “If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.”

— Frank Lane

149. “Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.”

— Zig Ziglar

150. “Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!”

— Joyce Meyer