"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way, and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish"
About this Quote
The subtext is classic American self-mythology, but filtered through Norris’s particular brand: stoic competence, physical discipline, and a kind of moral fitness. Coming from an action star closely associated with martial arts, it lands as embodied advice. He’s selling a worldview where effort is a skill you can train, like a punch or a kick, and where endurance is a virtue in itself.
Context matters: Norris’s career and public persona were built on overcoming typecasting and turning toughness into a marketable identity, later amplified by the meme-era exaggeration of his invincibility. That meme halo makes the quote read slightly funny, but it also helps it travel. People share it not because it’s novel, but because it’s sturdy: it rebrands the friction of ambition as part of the route, not a detour.
Quote Details
| Topic | Overcoming Obstacles |
|---|---|
| Source | Later attribution: Quotes: The Famous and Not so Famous (Terence M. Dorn Ph.D., 2021) modern compilationISBN: 9781662447952 · ID: ptZSEAAAQBAJ
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... I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.—Chuck Norris ... |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Norris, Chuck. (2026, March 21). I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way, and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-always-found-that-anything-worth-achieving-41312/
Chicago Style
Norris, Chuck. "I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way, and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish." FixQuotes. March 21, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-always-found-that-anything-worth-achieving-41312/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way, and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish." FixQuotes, 21 Mar. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-always-found-that-anything-worth-achieving-41312/. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.











