If you limit your choices only to what seems possible 
or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you 
truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
        - Robert Fritz

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
        - Elbert Hubbard 

Every man takes the limits of his own field
of vision for the limits of the world.
        - Arthur Schopenhauer

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you 
will never pay attention to their limitations again.
        - James R. Cook

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length 
of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths 
of the ocean.
        - John Locke

I'm not going to limit myself just because people 
won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
        - Dolly Parton

The limits of the possible can only be defined 
by going beyond them into the impossible.
        - Arthur C. Clarke

The only luck or limitations is in your own mind.
        - N. H. Moos

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
        - James Broughton

There are no limits to either time or distance, except 
as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind 
to know these things.
        - Hal Borland

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields 
to stern resolve.
        - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles 
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
        - Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) 
French theologian, musician, 
medical missionary

I have learned that success is to be measured not so 
much by the position that one has reached in life as by 
the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
        - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) 
US educator, social reformer

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, 
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles 
vanish into air.
        - John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) US president (6th)

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off the goal.
        - Hannah More (1745-1833) English writer

The obstacle is the path.
        - Zen Proverb

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your 
values and goals. Think of using 
all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
        - Marsha Sinetar US writer

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride
on! Ride on over all obstacles, 
and win the race!
        - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
  

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