Top 100 Quotes About Obstacles
#1. The world should not pass judgement upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or too harshly. The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.
Booker T. Washington
#2. I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.
Johnny Nash
#3. The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
Cate Blanchett
#4. In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. One of the greatest obstacles I see to our fashioning a rational approach to spirituality is to have religious superstition and self-deception masquerade as science.
Sam Harris
#6. People with victim mentality, consider actions such as making decisions, setting goals and achieving them to be nothing more than formidable obstacles
Sunday Adelaja
#7. What provokes me worst of all are our fateful bourgeois distinctions of rank. Of course I know as well as anyone that differences of class are necessary, and that they work greatly to my own advantage: but I wish they would not place obstacles in my way when I might enjoy a little pleasure ...
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.
Chris Burke
#9. Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires forging a team that will work hard to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, stand up to the pressures of fame and fortune, and stay true to the original vision long after others stop believing.
Jay Samit
#10. Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
Boris Kodjoe
#11. Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace.
Sam Owen
#12. He was unshakably determined to demand of anyone or anything that wanted to force him to live, whoever and whatever they might be - his grandfather, fate, hell - the restitution of his lost Eden.
He did not hide the obstacles from himself.
Victor Hugo
#13. Of course I'm totally biased, but I think my mom is an amazing educator. She continues to work tirelessly for the kids in her classes, year after year - despite the innumerable obstacles she faces. She is a huge inspiration to me.
Kandyse McClure
#14. The people who inspire me most are those who are willing to see the world from a loving perspective. People who perceive obstacles as opportunities and problems as spiritual assignments. People who choose love.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#15. Three a.m. in downtown Caldwell, New York, gave you just enough obstacles to keep shit amusing.
J.R. Ward
#17. We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.
Tal Ben-Shahar
#18. There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.
David Belle
#19. Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them.
Roopleen
#20. It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.
Eva Mendes
#21. The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
Kate Forsyth
#22. If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.
Dalai Lama
#23. An elephant overcome obstacles and barriers, and crush whatever standing in his path, obstacles and barriers, in the name of Jesus, clear-off.
Ademola Adejumo
#24. If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.
Wayne Dyer
#25. Many times we are our worst enemy. If we could learn to conquer ourselves, then we will have a much easier time overcoming the obstacles that are in front of us.
Stephan Labossiere
#26. To keep on battling and overcome the obstacles is what makes a true fighter.
Mauricio Rua
#27. Everyone in life faces obstacles. That's what made me who I am. I don't regret to have been bullied because probably if I would not have faced those obstacles I would not have been the man that I am. It make my stronger in a way and it helped me to forge the person that I am right now.
Georges St-Pierre
#29. We should get rid of these restricting attitudes and system of beliefs in order to remove obstacles in our way to the achievements of our goals and revealing our potential
Sunday Adelaja
#30. Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm
#31. We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz
#32. Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.
Daphne Koller
#33. Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that's part of sports.
Grant Hill
#34. My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.
Tim Cahill
#36. I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.
Robert Kagan
#37. Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
Orison Swett Marden
#38. I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.
Clint Eastwood
#39. I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements.
Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
#40. 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.
Shemar Moore
#41. Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.
Jane McGonigal
#42. Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
#43. All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#44. Obstacles are there to get around, climb over or scramble through.
Pat O'Shane
#45. The least urgent souls on earth with a thousand obstacles and superstitions to interfere with the accomplishment of work.
Colin Cotterill
#46. The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.
Barbara De Angelis
#47. It is rarely a lack of love that forces two hearts apart, but other obstacles.
Robin LaFevers
#48. All thinking (is) an effort to make thought escape from the thinker's mind past all obstacles as completely as possible: all society is an attempt to seise and influence and coerce each thought as it appears and force it to yield to another.
Virginia Woolf
#49. Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.
Michael Bloomberg
#50. The obstacles of life is meant to make us better, not bitter.
Akshay Dubey
#51. I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
Scott Adams
#52. War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.
Oscar Arias
#53. Obstacles without optimism can overturn opportunities for growth, hope and success.
Kym Gordon Moore
#54. 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
#55. I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.
Anne-Marie Duff
#56. Always remember ... How you handle obstacles will always be a key factor in determining your ability to achieve success.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#57. The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.
Sydney J. Harris
#58. True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.
RuPaul
#59. With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
Hideki Tojo
#60. Solution dreams can help you overcome obstacles that are preventing you from growing into your full potential.
Pamela Cummins
#61. If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.
Howard Schultz
#62. Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
Tina Fey
#63. Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul," Bjork said. "One real encounter, even for a few seconds, is far more useful than several hundred observations.
Daniel Coyle
#64. Obstacles are maps inside out.
Troubles are opportunities inside out.
Failures are lessons inside out.
Burdens are blessings inside out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Henry Ford
#66. The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#68. Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
Walter Ulbricht
#69. It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight ... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.
Ann Shulgin
#70. Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
Bill Richardson
#71. Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#72. Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
Adolf Hitler
#73. When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#74. There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan
#75. If no resistances or obstacles face you, you must create them. No seduction can proceed without them.
Robert Greene
#76. Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.
Henry David Thoreau
#77. There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you're entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality ... But that's something we'll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.
Tsugumi Ohba
#78. When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
Zig Ziglar
#79. Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher
#80. Poorly chosen objects are distractions, obstacles we put in the way when we're afraid of telling the truth.
Lauren Graham
#81. See obstacles as opportunities, Reinhold. See obstacles as inspirations.
Anthony Doerr
#82. We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions,
Bethany Hamilton
#83. It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
Herbie Hancock
#84. My purpose in going to Walden Pond
was not to live cheaply
nor to live dearly there
but to transact some private business,
with the fewest obstacles ...
It's a good place for business ...
it offers advantages
which it may not be good policy to divulge.
Henry David Thoreau
#85. 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
#86. Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.
J. Cole
#87. For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.
Chang-rae Lee
#88. For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.
Jay Samit
#89. Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.
Melissa Francis
#90. The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.
John Dewey
#91. The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.
Jim Rohn
#92. Be inspired by possibilities and never be discouraged by obstacles
Joshua Okello
#93. While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time to restore civility in Congress. It's time for action where action is needed - all politics aside.
Nick Lampson
#94. Organisms need, to use the metaphor of Marcus Aurelius, to turn obstacles into fuel - just as fire does.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#95. Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
Swami Vivekananda
#96. Prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A poem is an instant, lightning across the sky. Prose is before the storm, the storm, after the storm.
Molly Peacock
#97. Ever since I was a child my reaction to the forbidden has been a stubborn desire to keep pushing: obstacles make something uncontrollably and deeply necessary.
Jessica Posner
#98. I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a great victory just as a person. I overstepped countless obstacles by creating that record. And the record's a metaphor for the personal steps I [took] throughout the past year.
Justin Vernon
#99. The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
Nassau William Senior
#100. You can overcome all obstacles and life
with faith in GOD, Trust in GOD, and
Believe in GOD
Irene McCullum-Hines
