Top 200 Obstacles Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

— William Ernest Henley

152. “I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.”

— Roger Federer

153. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

154. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”

— Babe Ruth

155. “People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it.”

— Chris Gardner

156. “There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

157. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

— Orison Swett Marden

158. “I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.”

— Les Brown

159. “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

— William Ellery Channing

160. “The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

161. “I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I’m still here. I have a history of victory.”

— Steve Maraboli

162. “Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.”

— John Wayne

163. “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”

— William Halsey

164. “When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

165. “Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.”

— Gabby Douglas

166. “Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!”

— Richard E. Grant

167. “In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I’m broke as hell and one day I won’t be. You Can Achieve Anything!”

— Dwayne Johnson

168. “Courage allows the successful woman to fail – and to learn powerful lessons from the failure – so that in the end, she didn’t fail at all.”

— Maya Angelou

169. “The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

170. “Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

171. “The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can’t have it.”

— Tony Robbins

172. “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.”

— Audrey Hepburn

173. “Don’t tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.”

— Lou Holtz

174. “There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change!”

— Rhonda Byrne

175. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

— Frank Clark

176. “Tenacious people don’t rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.”

— John C. Maxwell

177. “Don’t measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.”

— Max Lucado

178. “Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says ‘yes.’”

— Chelsea Handler

179. “The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

180. “What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.”

— Epictetus

181. “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

— Napoleon Hill

182. “Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I’ll build a castle.”

— Fernando Pessoa

183. “Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.”

— Seneca the Younger

184. “No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.”

— James Allen

185. “Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.”

— Craig Groeschel

186. “Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!”

— Napoleon Hill

187. “Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; ’tis God’s gift.”

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

188. “I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.”

— Tom Brady

189. “Embrace the struggle and let it make you stronger. It won’t last forever.”

— Tony Gaskins

190. “A man can fall many times in life, but he’s never a failure until he refuses to get back up.”

— Evel Knievel

191. “Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.”

— Rumi

192. “Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

193. “It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

194. “What doesn’t kill me, can only make me stronger.”

— Kanye West

195. “Keep trying. It’s only from the valley that the mountain seems high.”

— Zig Ziglar

196. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

197. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius

198. “It always seems impossible until it's done.”

— Nelson Mandela

199. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

200. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas A. Edison