Quotes · Skopia

11 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Overcoming obstacles✕clear

Speech · Political speech

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

1896

★ 3.9

Novel · Coming of age story

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride over all obstacles, and win the race!

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield · 1850

★ 3.8

Historical literature

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

Histories · 430 BC

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

As in religion, so in politics, it is faith, and not despondency, that overcomes mountains and scales the heavens.

1863

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. They are inconvenient. They cost us something. But are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?

William McKinley

Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley · 1901

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

Man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

1982

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

1802

★ 1.9

It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

The Remains of the Day · 1989

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · Historical drama (film) · Biography · Historical drama

A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll...it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and desert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp...what's the use of knowing True North?

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln · 2012

★ 1.9

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

1958

★ 1.9