Top 86 Obstacle Course Quotes
#1. I honestly feel as though I've run an obstacle course to get here. In fact, I think, they should list shopping as a cardiovascular activity. My heart never beats as fast as it does when I see a "reduced by 50 percent" sign.
Sophie Kinsella
#2. You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
Anne Lamott
#3. The boardwalk was mobbed like downtown at Christmas, only with the roller coaster roaring overhead. The beach was even worse. It was like an obstacle course of blankets and people. It was hard for him to walk on sand and the cane didn't help at all.
Anita Diamant
#4. The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.
Tom Bissell
#5. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd
Greg Egan
#6. Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.
Stephen Jay Gould
#7. We do learn and get stronger through the hard stuff, but that's because God is love, not because God's putting us through some kind of obstacle course.
Nancy Rue
#8. Running through an unfamiliar forest filled with thorns is half an exercise in masochism, and half an obstacle course from the deepest reaches of Hell.
Seanan McGuire
#9. No wonder most fleshers had stampeded into the polises, once they had the chance: if disease and aging weren't reason enough, there was gravity, friction, and inertia. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions.
Greg Egan
#10. Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie."
"Because life is an adventure, of course."
"I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.
Kate Atkinson
#11. As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.
Jack Paar
#12. In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio.
Robert Downey Jr.
#13. We hold within ourselves the medicinal materials to mend self-inflicted injuries sustained while traversing the thorny obstacle course of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#14. My life is one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle.
Jack Paar
#15. Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.
Bethenny Frankel
#16. At17, balanced on that precarious walkway between adolescence and adulthood, the world is a crazy obstacle course paved one day with broken glass, the next with apple blossom.
Joanne Harris
#17. Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
Foster Friess
#18. 'Wipeout' is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!
Jill Wagner
#19. The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.
Elisabeth Rohm
#20. The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.
Eckhart Tolle
#21. At the end, someone or something always gives up. It is either you give up and quit or the obstacle or failure gives up and makes way for your success to come through.
Idowu Koyenikan
#22. Haters will unwittingly give you the inspiration you need to conquer your great obstacle of destiny if you did not give up
Sunday Adelaja
#23. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.
T.I.
#24. Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
Norman Vincent Peale
#25. 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
#26. Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.
Mircea Eliade
#27. To me there always seems a way to gain the opposite side of an obstacle. If one cannot pass over it, or below it, or around it, why then there is but a single alternative left, and that is to pass through it.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#28. People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.
Youssou N'Dour
#29. Like He did with Joshua, the Lord will meet your needs and cover your inadequacies with His power. There is no obstacle so big God can't help you overcome it. Not your finances. Not your schedule. Not your messy house. Not your unruly kids. Not your singleness.
Jennifer Maggio
#30. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#31. Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.
Harold Speed
#32. There are days where maybe the obstacle is too great, maybe I don't want to get up and go to classes or attend that marching band practice, but whenever I have those days, I just realize that I have to get it done and everything will turn out great in the end.
Patrick Henry Hughes
#33. Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear
Casar Jacobson
#34. The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Ryan Holiday
#35. It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
Alistair Cooke
#36. Never struggle against any obstacle; Observe, concentrate and witness;
Accept, indulge to transform and overcome,
For or against, but with equal respect and in totality.
Gian Kumar
#37. An entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle.
Slavoj Zizek
#38. It's not what I can do; it's what I will do. If you wake up and try to help one person and change that person's life, every obstacle you face in front of you is worth it.
Kyle Maynard
#39. if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.
Pearl S. Buck
#40. Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.
Pedro Noguera
#41. My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elaine Maxwell
#42. Since the day I'd left Yoroido, I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real to me.
Arthur Golden
#43. Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#44. I mean, 3-D adds a whole level of 'oh my goodness' to the movie in good ways and bad ways that you have to deal with. We've overcome any obstacle that we've ever had because we have a great 3-D crew, Max and the guys at Paradise 3-D.
Todd Farmer
#45. You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. Ali, of course, hasn't whipped every obstacle in his life. Only enough of them that we remember him as having done so.
Davis Miller
#47. Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve one's condition.
Pravin Agarwal
#48. Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Eric Butterworth
#49. I have to race because racing is a part of me. But I had to learn to race from a place of joy. Not pain. Not sorrow. Not anger. Not to fix things I can't control. But for a connection with other people. With the wilderness. With myself.
Erin Beresini
#50. Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.
Erin Beresini
#51. Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,
when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth
when their love is prosperous and confessed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#52. 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.
Stephanie McMahon
#53. I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.
Maiwenn
#54. A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.
Ray A. Davis
#55. behaving like Europeans. Or if they are studying and encounter an obstacle, like needing money or failing an assignment, they often give up. When I was studying, I saw white people
Catherine Titasey
#56. In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention?
Henry Parkes
#57. The traceur doesn't knock an obstacle out of the way unless it's absolutely necessary. He meanders his way past it. Over. Under. Through. Around. He gets past not by moving the obstacle but by moving himself. That is parkour, and working this job I use every technique I know just to get it done.
Sam A. Patel
#58. The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#59. Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
Mahavira
#60. In order to defeat our challengers and rise above every obstacle, we must be able to persevere.
Ellen J. Barrier
#61. When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work ... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.
Eric Maisel
#62. It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. How mankind hates himself.
John Steinbeck
#63. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.
Michael Chabon
#64. Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.
Jeff Cooper
#65. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.
Devon Michael
#66. My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'
Brad Thor
#68. A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
Jennifer Lopez
#69. Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.
Bruce Lee
#71. I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
Virginia Woolf
#72. I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
Elena Ferrante
#73. Life is an obstacle and forest, when you have accomplished it all, you get a reward. The reward is Heaven.
Dean F. Bryson
#74. He was aware he did not love her. He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and also because of some vanity on his part, but as she kissed him for the first time he was sure there would be obstacle to their inventing true love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#75. Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.
Lilli Palmer
#76. Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a fear of the supernatural. It bars people from laughing and never allows people to exercise their choice.
Taslima Nasrin
#77. The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.
Alexandre Dumas
#78. There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#79. An ant lifts a stone because it believes in itself, not its obstacle.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#80. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.
Sharon Salzberg
#81. Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Andrew Bernstein
#82. When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.
Theodore Dreiser
#83. For where grace is, there is a remitting, and where remitting is, there is no punishment. Punishment then being removed, and righteousness succeeding from faith, there is no obstacle to our becoming heirs of the promise.
Philip Schaff
#84. In science, time is the real obstacle. Given unlimited time, everyone can learn all the secrets of the universe.
Mai Jia
#85. The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.
Pope Paul VI
