Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

You have to come to your closed doors before you come to your open doors

View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall

If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17 -- or even in being alive.

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

Challenges mean opportunities as well.

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles

They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.

The people who inspire me most are those who are willing to see the world from a loving perspective. People who perceive obstacles as opportunities and problems as spiritual assignments. People who choose love.

You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.

When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.'

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.