Best 711 quotes in «obstacles quotes» category

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.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

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

If you are positive, you'll see opportunities instead of obstacles.

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.

If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through

If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.

I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that.

I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

I guess, the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life are deaths of people close to me.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

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.

Intending to run ahead of everyone is not an obstacle to fall behind. Streets are full of liars.

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

In this life you have obstacles.

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.

It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

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.

It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

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

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

Life is an obstacle and forest, when you have accomplished it all, you get a reward. The reward is Heaven.