Top 100 Obstacle Quotes
#1. At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
Roberto Unger
#2. What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
J. Sidlow Baxter
#3. Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us.
Graham Cooke
#4. Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.
Monte Irvin
#5. The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.
Christopher Dawson
#6. A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Chuck Norris
#7. Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.
Lance Armstrong
#8. Lack of money is no obstacle,
lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta
#9. The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
William Ralph Inge
#10. The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. The greatest obstacle to learning is the inability or unwillingness to overcome beliefs. - Todd Anthonsen999
Todd Anthonsen999
#12. The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.
James MacDonald
#14. An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#15. I realized that if I was ever going to achieve anything in life, I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it. I don't believe you can achieve anything by being passive. I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me. Michael Jordan
Skip Bertman
#16. It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
Clint Eastwood
#17. Human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.
Anais Nin
#18. As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
Clement Clarke Moore
#19. Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.
E. J. Gold
#20. Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.
Malcolm Gladwell
#21. The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
Moliere
#22. Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.
Jane McGonigal
#23. Your life must not be static; you must keep on moving forward towards the higher goal. No obstacle can stop a man who is committed to a single calling or to a single prize
Sunday Adelaja
#24. You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.
Kimberly Sabatini
#26. 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
#27. Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.
James A. Garfield
#28. The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.
Walter Wink
#29. Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.
Jodi Picoult
#30. Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
Jack Paar
#31. It's not a defeat nor an obstacle that is going to get in the way of our dream, my dream continues, the journey continues
Lyoto Machida
#33. The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
George Soros
#34. Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.
Robert Falcon Scott
#35. It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
G.K. Chesterton
#36. 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
#37. Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.
Patrick Henry Hughes
#38. One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
Gene Veith
#39. The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.
John Carmack
#40. The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#41. Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
Nathaniel Branden
#42. Every little obstacle-every fall you have-is an opportunity.
Wayne Dyer
#43. 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
#44. DAY THREE I DECLARE I have the grace I need for today. I am full of power, strength, and determination. Nothing I face will be too much for me. I will overcome every obstacle, outlast every challenge, and come through every difficulty better off than I was before. This is my declaration.
Joel Osteen
#45. And who knew what obstacle might spring up next? Or had the girls planned something else for him?
James Dashner
#46. With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.
Ernest Holmes
#47. The greatest obstacle to success is the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#48. It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
Georges St-Pierre
#49. At the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who don't share the gospel.
Albert Mohler
#50. Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.
Bernard Brodie
#51. 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
#52. If you're 'stuck' right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind.
Neale Donald Walsch
#53. The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.
Michel Templet
#54. Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.
Akon
#55. 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
#56. His route to them met with one obstacle after another as he negotiated his way across the room, excusing himself at every turn and twist.
Steven Erikson
#57. We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
Andrew Cohen
#58. Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.
Eckhart Tolle
#59. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge." Many
John C. Maxwell
#60. I could take care of that obstacle for her - I'd tear down anything standing between us - but I couldn't destroy what I couldn't even see.
Rachel Vincent
#61. It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.
Thomas Huxley
#62. It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.
Dave Ramsey
#63. Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.
Steve Allen
#64. love can be painful. But real love? It beats any obstacle along the way. And it saves people who are beyond saving. People who the world has given up on. It can be redemption." I
Lola StVil
#65. We're the only obstacle we need to overcome.
Renee Paule
#66. Despite the obstacle, when a strong passion within yearns for life, begs to thrive, we must find a way to release it. To set free that which creates, that which inspires, for passion is the driving force behind all that is great.
Rico Lamoureux
#67. People are not hungry because there is no food in the world. There is plenty of it; there is a surplus in fact. But between those who want to eat and the bursting warehouses stands a tall obstacle indeed: politics.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#68. The struggle against an obstacle inevitably propels the fighter to a new level of functioning. The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.
Ryan Holiday
#69. We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.
Dalai Lama
#70. 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
#71. Strength takes control, the ability, and the consistency to outweigh the obstacle at hand. No storm lats forever.
Chanekka Pullens
#73. People who are committed to mastery don't freak out (as much) when they hit an obstacle. They reassess and then get going again, thinking they can get better.
Henry Cloud
#74. The truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that
Alanis Morissette
#75. 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.
#76. If you have God's calling, the circumstances around you do not matter; God knows how to remove every obstacle
Sunday Adelaja
#77. I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.
Katie Stevens
#79. You are likely the greatest obstacle to achieving your own dreams.
Bryant McGill
#80. Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.
K.J. Parker
#81. Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.
Plamen Chetelyazov
#82. God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.
Rick Warren
#83. Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#84. The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.
David Hawkins
#85. Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#86. Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, than a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct we must begin with undeceiving.
Montesquieu
#87. The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
#88. 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
#89. Intending to run ahead of everyone is not an obstacle to fall behind. Streets are full of liars.
Enver Aysever
#90. The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
Vijay Kumar
#91. Doubt is probably the biggest obstacle to overcome. Once you rise above doubt, you are on your way to success.
Theo Rossi
#92. Everything that I have done that the media sees as an obstacle, I have over come it.
Terrell Owens
#93. In a world of self indulgence your attitude is going to be your biggest obstacle because you're only concerned with yourself!
Auliq Ice
#95. I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive
would that I could live a thousand times!
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#96. The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
Pope Pius X
#97. Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century spiritual teacher, summed it all up beautifully: "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.
Kerstin Gier
#99. Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great writer is just simply a martyr whom the stake cannot kill.
Honore De Balzac
#100. I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.
Brian Tracy
