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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Work
,
Give
,
Through
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan
Strength
,
Attitude
,
Weakness
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
Best
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Life
,
Power
,
Smile
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
Bad
,
Hard
,
May
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Life
,
Home
,
Gratitude
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein
Honor
,
Forever
,
Sound
It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur
Life
,
Fun
,
Game
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
Work
,
Character
,
Hard
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan
Positive
,
Negative
,
Situation
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
Weird
,
Pro
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston
Positive
,
Done
,
Before
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
Success
,
Failure
,
May
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Humor
,
Laughter
,
Through
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Work
,
Give
,
Through
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
Try
,
Away
,
Run
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
May
,
Mistake
,
Necessary
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara
Leaders
,
Cruel
,
Replaced
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Time
,
Give
,
Place
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life
,
Reason
,
Whatever
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Wisdom
,
Wounds
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado
Wants
,
Lead
,
Crowd
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
Education
,
Someone
,
Him
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Understand
,
Between
,
Able
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius
Government
,
May
,
Place
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Khalil Gibran
Another
,
Number
,
Counsel
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran
Wisdom
,
Road
,
False
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving
Love
,
Mother
,
Father
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Power
,
Pain
,
Knows
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson
Person
,
Eye
,
Hunting
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