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It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
Sep 29, 2025
Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.
Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.
Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.
The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.
The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown, consists . . . in the bounties, premiums, and other aids which are granted, in a variety of cases, by the nations, in which the establishments to be imitated are previously introduced.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
If at first you don't succeed, try management.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.