Quotes About Obstacles and Problems

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

— Duke Ellington

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions.  They admit of insights, not answers.

— Jerome Wiesner

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it.  Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

— André Gide

It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

— Winston Churchill, describing the difficulties of forecasting the difficulties of Russia.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

— Henry J. Kaiser

Don’t fix the blame, fix the problem.

— Keith S. Pennington

If you are able to state a problem, then the problem can be solved.

— Edwin Land, inventor of the instant camera

No problem is too big to run away from.

— Charles M. Schulz

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

— M. Scott Peck

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

— Poul Anderson

Of my two “handicaps,” being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

— Shirley Chisholm

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

— Ray Kroc

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

— Walter Bagehot