Obstacles Quotes

Close your eyes and you will see your dreams, open them and you will see obstacles.

~ Gavriil Stiharul

Life is about juggling obligations, Valerie. You need to study smarter, not harder.

~ Caroline Hanson

Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies.

~ Travis Beacham

Any woman of virtue won't be easy to come by. She will make you jump over hurdles to reach her.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The greater the obstacles, the greater the victory.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

~ Bradley Bowman

Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.

~ Giacomo Casanova

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

~ Ice-T

How to describe the excitement I felt when I saw this beautiful work and realized its potential? I guess it's like when, after a long journey, suddenly a mountain peak comes in full view. You catch your breath, take in its majestic beauty, and all you can say is Wow! It's the moment of revelation. You have not yet reached the summit, you don't even know yet what obstacles lie ahead, but its allure is irresistible, and you already imagine yourself at the top. It's yours to conquer now. But do you have the strength and stamina to do it?

~ Edward Frenkel

Marriage is nothing to underestimate. Success in marriage is about getting back up, again and again. Ultimately, the Shulamite had to write her own role in Solomon's drama. She made Solomon's problems her problems. For her, that was worth every bruise.pg ii

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

All my years to this momentAll my roads to this wall.All my words to this silenceAll my pride to this fall.-Songs of Sapphique

~ Catherine Fisher

The more challenging the obstacles in life, the greater the satisfaction in overcoming them.

~ Murad S. Shah

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

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

~ John Ruskin

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

~ Enid Blyton

You can never be defeated in life, you are a learner.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.'

~ Howard E. Wasdin

In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.

~ Kurt Student

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

~ Bill Bradley

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

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

~ Michael Jordan

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

~ Michael Jordan

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

~ Christopher Reeve

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

~ Albert Schweitzer

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

~ Christopher Reeve

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

~ John Quincy Adams

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

~ Naomi Wolf

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

~ Marco Tempest

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles that's the key to happiness.

~ Herbie Hancock

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

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

~ Lucinda Williams

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

~ Jeremy Renner

The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

~ Walter Gropius

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

~ Anthony Michael Hall

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.

~ Sufjan Stevens

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

~ B. C. Forbes

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

~ Alfred A. Montapert

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

~ William Godwin