Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.

It's been kind of difficult. But everybody has some obstacles they've got to overcome. I just look at this as one of them. Get better.

Despite all the obstacles, it turned out wonderfully.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.