Obstacle Quotes
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle
Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
Tojo Hideki
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
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
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Franz Kafka
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.
Theodor Herzl
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
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.
Peter Singer
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
Robert Bork
We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.
John Desmond Bernal
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Kathryn Bigelow
One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.
Markus Wolf
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
Theodore Bikel
Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
Joy Page
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
Elfriede Jelinek
There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.
Fred Durst
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir