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October 24, 2010 by kevinstilley

Challenges / Obstacles – select quotes

Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life.
~ John Amatt

Always remember, it’s simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~ G.K. Chesterston

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
~ E. Joseph Cossman

In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity.
~ Albert Einstein

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback – or the start of a new kind of development.
~ Mary Roberts Kinehart

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
~ Maxwell Maltz

All things are difficult before they are easy.
~ John Norley

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
~ George S. Patton

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.
~ Jean Vanier

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
~ Wesley in The Princess Bride

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Lucy: “Remember, Charlie Brown, you learn more from your defeats than you do from your victories.”
Charlie Brown: “That makes me the smartest man in the world!”

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