Quotes About Obstacle

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.

It is only the first step that is difficult.

You can no more make water run up hill than can you cause the tide of economic evolution to flow back in its channel along the way it came.

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

Wind will blow through any chink it can find, flow around any obstacle in its course. Follow the wind's example and let it guide you into those spaces.

My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right; we try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path." He paused. "But the mountain is there to be crossed. It is on that pilgrimage, as we climb higher, that we are forced to shed the layers upon layers we have carried for so long. Then we find that our load is lighter and we have come to know something of ourselves in the perilous climb.

My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right; we try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path. He paused. But the mountain is there to be crossed. It is on that pilgrimage, as we climb higher, that we are forced to shed the layers upon layers we have carried for so long. Then we find that our load is lighter and we have come to know something of ourselves in the perilous climb.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

It's a long way," John said slowly, "ain't it? It's a hard way. It's uphill all the way.

how I stood, with my love and my ingenuity, between him and the dark.

all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...

One had to make one's way carefully here, for all these people were blind.

There is something fantastic in the spectacle I now present to myself of having run so far, so hard, across the ocean even, only to find myself brought up short once more before the bulldog in my own backyard — the yard, in the meantime, having grown smaller and the bulldog bigger.

He was going to kill Russell's dream of a perfect logical system.

When faced with an obstacle or uncertainty in your abilities, use it as an opportunity to grow your talents.

Everyone has an uncomfortable club in their bag.

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.

Motor sport is very expensive. It's unfortunate, because you see so much talent that never makes it to the top due to the lack of financial support.

There's a profit attached to every problem. Find it, face it and fix it.

The only obstacle is the absence of the knowledge in our minds of the wisdom of God that is able to move any mountain