Stephen Harper Quotes

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.

When you find yourself hitting up against a wall over and over again, it's time to try a different route.

You just have to get on with life, there's no alternative. You could curl up in a ball on your bed, but that's not going to achieve anything.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.

'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Everybody has a different journey. Everybody has a different path, and you don't really know what to expect. All you know is to just keep plugging away, and you hope something will come through and something will happen.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

You have to understand that when things go wrong in your life, it doesn't mean you need to quit. It means you need to get stronger and change your plan.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Washington has a way of dealing with yesterday's issues.