Quotes tagged ‘Obstacles’

(130 total)

“What is not good are ideals and rhetoric that don't have the possibility of changing the condition you analyze.”

“[Lincoln] seemed to think only that he had an unpleasant duty to perform and endeavored to perform it as smoothly as possible.”

— Adm David Porter, amazon.com

“Zeno had no patience with metaphysical subtleties, virtues was what he thought important and he only values physics and metaphysics in so far as they contributed to virtue.”

— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com

“Readiness to assume personal responsibility as early and as decisively as possible... regardless of formal correctitude.”

— Erwin Rommel, amazon.com

“Over-insurance is the enemy of enterprise.”

— Erwin Rommel, amazon.com

“I know that you have plenty of spirit; for even before you began to equip yourself with maxims which were wholesome and potent to overcome obstacles, you were taking pride in your contest with Fortune; and this is all the more true, now that you have grappled with Fortune and tested your powers. For…”

— Seneca, amazon.com

“The greatest benefit an obstacle has to offer may be this.”

— Alex Lickerman MD, amazon.com

“If it takes a year, if it takes 2 years. We won't give up and we won't quit until they say there's absolutely no one we can do.”

— Tommy John, amazon.com

“Always give 100% and you'll never have to second guess yourself.”

— Tommy John, amazon.com

“I'll die out there before I quit. You can take that to the bank because it's gold.”

— Tommy John, amazon.com

“I'll get my chance. I'll get my chance.”

— Tommy John, amazon.com

“I wasn't willing to hear the words 'no chance.' No chance means literally that: impossible.”

— Tommy John, amazon.com

“Keep a stiff upper lip, clean up as you go, and the skies will brighten by and by.”

— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com

“I was concentrated upon extending and developing and perfecting our business rather than on stopping by the wayside to squabble with slanderers.”

— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com

“We do not intend merely to grasp the situation–we must control it.”

— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com

“He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act.”

— Ron Chernow, amazon.com

“You could do or say the most outrageous things at this moment and I would not show the least sign of excitement.”

— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com

“Seeing opportunity in every disaster, he studied the situation exhaustively instead of bemoaning his bad luck.”

— Ron Chernow, amazon.com

“Just at the moment when I required the money most was he [Rockefeller's father] apt to say 'My son, I find I have got to have that money.'”

— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com

“Oh how blessed young men are how have to struggle for a foundation and a beginning in life. I shall never cease to be grateful for the 3 and 1/2 years of apprenticeship and the difficulties to be overcome, all along the way.”

— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com