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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. -- Walt Kelly
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. -- Barbara Sher
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. -- Tom Stoppard
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. -- Kin Hubbard
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. -- Asa Gray
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities -- Bill Mollison
When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable. -- Judith Martin
The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. -- Thomas S. Monson
The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. -- Robert H. Goddard
There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess. -- Wendell Berry
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. -- Khaled Hosseini
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. -- Douglas Adams
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! -- Dean Karnazes
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it. -- Theodor Herzl
And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up. -- Stedman Graham
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life. -- Sufjan Stevens
It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed. -- Mark Nepo
Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference. -- Tony Tan
I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too. -- Ruben Studdard
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics. -- Sam Harris
Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish. -- Bethenny Frankel
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. -- Elbert Hubbard
I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds. -- Brad D. Smith
As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies... well... babies are complicated. -- Sarah MacLean
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses. -- Maureen Forrester
Passion is a product of the heart. Passion is what helps you when you have a great dream. Passion breeds conviction and turns mediocrity into excellence! Your passion will motivate others to join you in pursuit of your dream. With passion, you will overcome insurmountable obstacles. You will become unstoppable! -- Andy Andrews
If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference. -- Don Kardong
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready. -- Barbara Sher
If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right way. In reality, holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God's plan. And this fidelity is equally within everyone's capacity in both its active and passive exercise. -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them and demand they fly too close to the sun for our amusement. We send them into the arena for an exhausting three-setter, an 18-hole playoff, a 200th lap. The burnout factor is insurmountable. -- Kevin Bleyer
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. -- James Madison
There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore. -- Jared Padalecki
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap. -- Eckhart Tolle
My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer. -- Alicia Coppola
There is no insurmountable solitude. -- Pablo Neruda
What barrier is so insurmountable as silence? -- Marcel Proust
No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey. -- Heber J. Grant
Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible. -- Jon Jones
A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. -- Paul Valery
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time. -- Albert Einstein
It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier. -- James Lane Allen
its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable -- Suzanne Collins
As our planet faces seemingly insurmountable odds, we must find new ways to survive and thrive together. -- Nikhil Advani
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable. -- Albert Einstein
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. -- Francis Ray
I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development. -- Garry Kasparov
Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool. -- Julia Quinn
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity -- Forest Ray Moulton
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable. -- Chanakya
My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act. -- Narendra Modi
It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the next. -- Debbie Shapiro
the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery. -- Tom Stoppard
Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all. -- Audre Lorde
When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure. -- Chris Prentiss
Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it. -- Janet Hagberg
I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been. -- Scott Derrickson
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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