Obstacles Quotations | Page 4

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

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

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

There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

The more you practive overcoming your obstacles, the more you will welcome them & be unafraid.

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

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

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?

I don't think we fully know the obstacles we're facing. There's still a lot of this mine that we haven't been able to examine, and hopefully will be able to as soon as we can get that fire under control.

I don't think we fully know the obstacles we're facing. How much smoke is there? What are the difficulties of traversing through there?

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.

For the first time Colombian society has begun to be very demanding in the sense that it is important to have peace but without impunity. Therefore, that historical path must be observed. It is also important to expect consequences, from those who favored from benevolent processes, who hopefully will not become obstacles for balanced processes.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

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.

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

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

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

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise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.

I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.

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

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

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

Everything that I have done that the media sees as an obstacle, I have over come it.

It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

Obstacles are an opportunity to create something new

It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

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

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

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

[C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power.

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.

When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

The major point is to protect private homeowners from eminent domain and put major hurdles in the way of the government if they want to take your house. It's going to put an awful lot of obstacles in the way of eminent domain, especially for economic development.

These processes take time, but at this point we don't see any material obstacles that would prevent the trust from occurring.

A lot can happen in 500 laps and, at Martinsville, things like pit strategy and tire management can make or break you, ... This is definitely one of the bigger obstacles for us as a team in the 'Chase.'

Alecia keeps improving in the steeplechase and is becoming more efficient with the barriers and the water obstacles.

No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.

The higher the job protection, the higher the obstacles to job creation.

All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.

All obstacles to forming a national unity government soon will be resolved.

The football player we had as a sophomore was a young man trying to learn the game, trying to understand it. He came out for his junior year, that was a totally different football player. His second year he was a starter on the varsity football team. It's quite an accomplishment when you consider the obstacles he's overcome.

The future for racing in this country is frightening, considering all the obstacles. There's traffic regulations, sponsorship and the like...and although safety is paramount, when people go over the top it makes it very difficult. The hierarchy of Australian cycling is oblivious to the obstacles in running a race.

The current trading system is one of the biggest obstacles to fighting poverty and improving living standards in developing countries. Trade barriers need to be dismantled.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Each year represents new challenges and obstacles. You have to adjust.

All these obstacles, (investors) are seeing right through them, ... Where is the liftoff going to come from?

The mayor has got this dream about having a city up and running, ... And we share that dream. But we also want to be realistic about some of the hurdles and obstacles that we all confront in repopulating New Orleans.

The meeting will try to overcome obstacles and try to reach an accord over redeployment in Hebron,

The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

the main obstacle to the peace efforts. Whether it's too late for him to turn around, I don't want to say.

There will always be obstacles but there is always a way to accomplish the objective if it is right and for the benefit of mankind.

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

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

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

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

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

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities.

Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.

Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.

When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

The emotion, and the other aspect is that this relate to many different obstacle in life. Emotion, yes, I love emotion, for your information, very much so.

If obstacles are large, jump higher.

I've never felt my gender was an obstacle. There have of course been moments in my career when it has slapped me in the face but the reason I felt it slapped me in the face was because it wasn't something that I had contemplated before.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.