William Glasser Quotes

If one door is closed, break a window anyway.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

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.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in.

Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

... combines a limited outlook with strong qualities of resistance.

We shall either find a way or make one.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

If you want something, and you find an obstacle, you need to get over it. By any means necessary.

Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.

Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.

I get worn down by people telling you what you can't do or what the problems are. Go on, give us a solution then.

You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.