Book

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

The Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do. Its many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold Schwar

(15 total)

Characters

Ryan Holiday (11)Theodore Roosevelt (4)

“It doesn’t matter whether this is the worst time to be alive or the best, whether you’re in a good job market or a bad one, or that the obstacle you face is intimidating or burdensome. What matters right now is right now.”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

Tagged: The Power of Now

“We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

Tagged: Autonomy, Control Yourself, Control

“We decide what story to tell ourselves. Or whether we will tell one at all.”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

Tagged: Narrative Creation, Story of Our Lives, Soundtrack of Our Lives, What We Say To Ourselves

“All we need to do are these three little duties—to try hard, to be honest, and to help ourselves and others.”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

Tagged: Inspirational, Helping Others, Our Responsibilities As Humans

“Stop looking for angels, and start looking for angles.”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

Tagged: strategy, Clever Wordplay

“To see an obstacle as a challenge, to make the best of it anyway, that is also a choice—a choice that is up to us.”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

Tagged: Inspirational, Obstacles

“When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

“There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

“Go onto a battlefield, live in a house a couple hundred years old and you'll realize that a lot of people came before you and many will come after. You're not special or unique. Just a person doing their best.”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

Tagged: Thinking Of Others

“Putting I in front of events. I did this. I was so smart. I got that., etc. No wonder you take losses personally. You've inflated your own role in them.”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

Tagged: Thinking Of Others

“If someone took traffic signals personally we would judge them insane. Yet this is exactly what life is doing to us. It tells us to come to a stop here. Or that this intersection is blocked or that a particular road has been rerouted through an inconvenient detour. We cannot argue or yell this probl…”

— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com

Tagged: Acceptance, Amor fati

“Poverty is a bitter thing but it is not as bitter as restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“It is a good thing to be a good half-back but it is a mighty bad thing if at forty all you can say of a man is that he was a good half-back.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“If you haven't got it in you to feel most proud of the times when you work, I think very little of you.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“We must either wear out or rust out every one of us. My choice is to wear out.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com

Tagged: Life