Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

As the Psalmist put it millennia ago, 'Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.' Many people, however, believe that they can both sow and reap without tears.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend; For Iperceive

No, none of these things are the key. When it comes right down to it, I know of only one factor that separates those who consistently shine from those who don't: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. Nothing else has the same kind of impact on people's ability to achieve and to accomplish whatever their minds and hearts desire.

Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.

There is no achievement without failure.

People who fail forward are able to see errors or negative experiences as a regular part of life, learn from them, and then move on. They persevere in order to achieve their purpose in life.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

You have to experience a lot of failure to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success.

Once you find that idea, start moving forward and act decisively. U.S. admiral William Halsey observed, "All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

Only people who can see the invisible can do the impossible.