Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities Quotes

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

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

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

Make an exercise out of everything you can’t do.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.