Kathryn Minshew Quotes

You're going to hit some rough patches. You're going to run into obstacles. People are going to say, 'You can't do it.' But you have to persevere. You have to keep working hard and believing in yourself.

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

Corky is the one who never gives up. I never gave up. He faces obstacles, and he couldn't always reach his goals. But he tries to reach his dreams.

There's many times people told me I couldn't do something or couldn't work for it - it just made me more hungry.

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

You can not be successful without confronting rejection.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this.

It always seems impossible until its done.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Setbacks motivate me.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

People don't like success.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.