Obstacles famous quotes

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Inspirational #Broken #Obstacles

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Overcoming #Way #Obstacles

Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.
-- Aimee Carter

#Want #Faces #Obstacles

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
-- Alan Rosenberg

#Reality #Actors #Obstacles

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
-- Alastair Campbell

#Eye #Obstacles #Daredevil

At the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who don’t share the gospel.
-- Albert Mohler

#Christian #The End Of The Day #Obstacles

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Essentials #Reform #Obstacles

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Branches #Obstacles #Formidable

Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.
-- Ali Vincent

#Accomplishment #Faces #Obstacles

We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles
-- Amy Purdy

#Challenges #Obstacles #Disability

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
-- Anais Nin

#Weakness #Obstacles

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
-- Anthony Daniels

#Views #Overcoming #Obstacles

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
-- Barbara Sher

#Real #Worry #Obstacles

Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Ideas #Energy #Obstacles

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
-- Benjamin Carson

#Softball #Looks #Obstacles

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.
-- Benny Goodman

#Want #Obstacles #Handle

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Happiness #Too Much #Obstacles

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Hurt #Forever #Obstacles

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Firsts #Modesty #Obstacles

Great obstacles make great leaders.
-- Billy Diamond

#Leader #Politics #Obstacles

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
-- Booker T. Washington

#Inspirational #Obstacles #Where You Are In Life

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.
-- Brian Tracy

#Goal #Wish #Obstacles

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.
-- Bruno Bauer

#Self #Progress #Obstacles

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
-- Carole King

#Careers #Obstacles #Being A Woman

If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.
-- Catherine DeVrye

#Motivation #Path #Obstacles

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.
-- Charles Edwards

#Tools #Management #Obstacles

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
-- Charles Rangel

#Dream #Overcoming #Obstacles

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Progress #Prejudice #Obstacles

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language
-- Christopher Dawson

#Understanding #Obstacles #Language

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Obstacles #Smooth

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.
-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Obstacles #Fear Nothing

Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life’s challenges is actually our own fear of failure.
-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Challenges #Obstacles #Fear Of Failure

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
-- Daniel Yergin

#Technology #Development #Obstacles

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.
-- David Belle

#Overcoming #Obstacles #Found

There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.
-- David Belle

#Overcoming #Limits #Obstacles

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.
-- Diane Keaton

#Obstacles #Aging #Keep Going

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
-- Diane Ravitch

#Reform #Complacency #Obstacles

For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle.
-- Edgar Cayce

#People #Effort #Obstacles

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.
-- Edwin Land

#Science #Rooms #Obstacles

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
-- Ellen Terry

#Conceited #Progress #Obstacles

With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.
-- Ernest Holmes

#Vision #Obstacles #Disability

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.
-- Ethan Hawke

#Success #Overcoming #Obstacles

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.
-- Frances Mayes

#Order #Obstacles #Sometimes

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.
-- Fred Durst

#People #Obstacles #Eclectic

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
-- George Eliot

#Culture #Opinion #Obstacles

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
-- George Muller

#Trials #Obstacles #Sometimes

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.
-- George Weinberg

#Obstacles #Cures

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy
-- Goldie Hawn

#Joy #Next #Obstacles

There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley

#Challenges #Have Faith #Obstacles

If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through
-- Greg Laurie

#Obstacles #Lord #Difficulty

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

#Book #Obstacles

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.
-- Gustav Stresemann

#Errors #Victory #Obstacles

The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez

#Mean #Overcoming #Obstacles

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
-- Guy de Maupassant

#Ignorance #Secret #Obstacles

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
-- Halle Berry

#Laughing #Way #Obstacles

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
-- Harri Holkeri

#Challenges #Trying #Obstacles

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.
-- Heath Ledger

#Obstacles #Defeat

No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.
-- Heber J. Grant

#Obstacles #Command #Insurmountable

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
-- Henry Drummond

#Men #Obstacles #Trouble

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
-- Henry Morton Stanley

#Want #Obstacles #Speed

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.
-- Howard Zinn

#Principles #Obstacles #Anarchist

I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for.
-- Ice Cube

#Journey #People #Obstacles

Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.
-- J. Cole

#Dream #Obstacles #Like You

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
-- Jack Paar

#Race #Long #Obstacles

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?
-- James Branch Cabell

#Life And Death #Obstacles #Youth

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.
-- James MacDonald

#Obstacles #Christ #Refusal

Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get!
-- James MacDonald

#Opportunity #Doubt #Obstacles

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.
-- Jane McGonigal

#Games #Volunteer #Obstacles

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.
-- Jayne Meadows

#People #Overcoming #Obstacles

I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.
-- Jennie Garth

#Goes On #Obstacles #Shows

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
-- Jeremy Renner

#Successful #Obstacles #Architecture

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.
-- Joel Bakan

#Corporations #Way #Obstacles

You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish.
-- Joel Osteen

#Dream #Destiny #Obstacles

If you think your obstacles are too big, they will be. Don’t set limits on your life with your thinking.
-- Joel Osteen

#Thinking #Limits #Obstacles

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams
-- John C. Maxwell

#Dream #Pathways #Obstacles

[C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power.
-- John Ralston Saul

#Exercise #Obstacles

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.
-- John Ruskin

#Children #Mountain #Obstacles

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.
-- Jojo Moyes

#Feet #Matter #Obstacles

There is not one obstacle standing in the way of your success anymore.
-- Jon Taffer

#Way #Obstacles #Standing

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Race #Trying #Obstacles

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter

#Democracy #Obstacles #Rebellious

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
-- Joy Page

#Inspirational Life #Doe #Obstacles

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
-- Jules Verne

#Stronger #Impossible #Obstacles

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
-- Karin Slaughter

#Character #Obstacles #Southerner

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.
-- Karl Marx

#Obstacles #Individual #Capacity

Megan could have kissed him. If there weren't a million obstacles, both physical and psychological, in her way, of course.
-- Kate Brian

#Way #Obstacles #Psychological

My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Past #Obstacles #Excuse

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.
-- Kim Wilde

#Real #Obstacles #Talent

Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.
-- Krishna Das

#Grace #Looks #Obstacles

‎"Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Opportunity #Negative #Obstacles

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.
-- LeBron James

#Want #Succeed #Obstacles

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

#Yield #Obstacles #Resolve

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Stupid #Obstacles #Sometimes

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.
-- Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

#Love Is #Age #Obstacles

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.
-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Overcoming #Pressure #Obstacles

Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.
-- Marijane Meaker

#Winning #Challenges #Obstacles

There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
-- Marion Milner

#Roots #Causes #Obstacles

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
-- Mark Cane

#Ideas #Overcoming #Obstacles

Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles
-- Mark Lawrence

#Opportunity #Men #Obstacles

The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.
-- Mark Rothko

#Ideas #Obstacles #Clarity