Top 100 Impediment Quotes
#1. When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
C.S. Lewis
#2. There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#3. VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Ambrose Bierce
#4. The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
Bernard Lown
#5. I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.
Francisco Goya
#6. The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
Stephen Jay Gould
#7. The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
Alice Rivlin
#8. Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.
Cixin Liu
#9. Uh ... why does your partner keep saying 'ing.' Mr Pin?"
...
"Speech impediment.' said Pin.
Terry Pratchett
#10. The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
Sheryl Sandberg
#11. P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.
Herschel Walker
#12. Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.
Michael Eisner
#13. I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
Ian Gomez
#14. PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset.
Charles Lichenstein
#16. The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical.
Carl Sagan
#17. Rationale still remains the greatest impediment to encountering God's mysteries.
Christian Hunt
#18. The greatest impediment to women's liberation is dumb commercials.
Debora Geary
#20. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.
Ramananda Prasad
#21. The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment."
"What is it?"
"Impossibility.
Alexandre Dumas
#22. My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante
#23. ...the petrel, mindless of such height,
scales each watery hill
that rises up, adapting to the shape
of each impediment, each low escape
instinct in it, the scope of its flight
fitted to its will.
David Yezzi
#24. It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.
Jaggi Vasudev
#25. Spanish - how shall I say this? - is like
Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.
Sol Luckman
#26. I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
Mary Cheney
#27. Successful People Find Good within The World. Impossibilities do not limit them. They seek the estimable lesson in every impediment.
Henry Johnson Jr
#28. I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
Walter Dean Myers
#29. Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it
turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
Marcus Aurelius
#30. Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.
James Altucher
#31. Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.
W. Somerset Maugham
#32. I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#33. We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
Alan Cohen
#34. I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Tobe Hooper
#35. . . . though if Fanshawe had not spoken in so unbecoming a way, Laurence would have liked to keep Carver out of it, as he knew the boy had a poor head for heights, which struck him as a grave impediment for an aviator.
Naomi Novik
#36. The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#37. Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.
Lars Iyer
#38. I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
Gareth Gates
#39. Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#40. I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment and walked with difficulty. The boys used to make fun of him. They teased and taunted him until sometimes he would cry.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#41. Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.
Jon Krakauer
#42. Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Seneca.
#43. I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.
Harrison Ford
#44. This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
Edward Young
#45. A bit of luck a lot of perseverance and sustained fortitude we can overcome any impediment that life may present to us.
Archibald Gumiro
#46. The only real impediment to this is yourself and your emotions - boredom, panic, frustration, insecurity. You cannot suppress such emotions - they are normal to the process and are experienced by everyone, including Masters. What you can do is have faith in the process.
Robert Greene
#47. Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.
Gough Whitlam
#48. Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.
Libba Bray
#49. From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
Patrick Campbell
#50. In the United States, the sacrosanct nature of dreams, never to be critically assessed, may be the most powerful impediment to political radicalization and collective action.
Wolfgang Streeck
#51. I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.
Herschel Walker
#52. Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#53. The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#54. My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
Junot Diaz
#55. I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.
Bill Walton
#56. A white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.
Naomi Wolf
#57. The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
Sigmund Freud
#58. As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
Bill Maris
#59. The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
Martin Rees
#60. Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
Samuel Smiles
#61. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Marcus Aurelius
#62. Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. X
Epictetus
#63. Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.
Radhanath Swami
#64. He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
U Thant
#67. I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
George Fetherling
#68. I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market.
Frederick W. Smith
#69. Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence first of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states.
James Madison
#70. The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#71. The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
Carl Sagan
#72. Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
Joel Salatin
#73. Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.
Tahir Shah
#75. An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement ...
Arthur Conan Doyle
#76. An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
Allan Bloom
#77. I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
David Arquette
#78. But I also want kids who suffer from bullying to know that you can be whoever you want to be in life, including a professional boxer, that anything is possible and that who you are or whom you love should not be impediment to achieving anything in life.
Orlando Cruz
#79. There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
Anthony Fauci
#80. Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I enjoy a good jest.'
'You are dreadfully rude,' I said to him.
He sighed. 'That wasn't the slightest bit funny.
Danielle L. Jensen
#81. Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.
Ambrose
#82. It also demonstrated that far from being an impediment, knowledge is an asset to feminine charm.
Robert F. Young
#83. There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
Ramana Maharshi
#84. A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#85. When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.
Terry Pratchett
#86. The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Peter Stuyvesant
#87. When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
Viggo Mortensen
#88. Even the slightest criticism of others is an impediment (hindrance) to Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan, Absolute Enlightenment). It also hinders Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), also hinders Samkit (Self-realization).
Dada Bhagwan
#89. We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
Kirk Douglas
#91. The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,
Lucian Leape
#92. From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.
Michael Otto
#93. For Satan, as for Marx, religion was an impediment to the grand design of transforming humanity from a collection of free-willed, autonomous individuals into a mass of self-corralling slaves who mistake security for liberty and try to keep the cognitive dissonance to a minimum in order to function.
Michael Walsh
#94. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important.
Ashlee Vance
#95. The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
John Maynard Keynes
#96. He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.
Amy Thomson
#97. Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
William Shakespeare
#98. [ ... ] atheists are the most reviled minority in the United States. Polls indicate that being an atheist is a perfect impediment to running for high office in our country (while being black, Muslim, or homosexual is not).
Sam Harris
#99. That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.
Sam Harris
#100. There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear in mind the fact that people also need security
Romano Prodi
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