William Arthur Ward Quotes

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

It's not over until you win

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Beginners are many; finishers are few.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon 's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.