Obstacles Quotes

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

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.

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

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

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.

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

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.