Quotes About Obstacle

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot

False ideas are the greatest obstacle to the reception of the gospel."13 Not pop culture. Not consumerism. Not moral temptation. False ideas.

You can't get there from here.

From triumph to failure is only one step.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the reestablishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

You write to me that it's impossible; the word is not French.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

There shall be no Alps.

To Robert Fulton: What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Isn't a governor something you put on a state to keep it from moving ahead very fast?

Mas o fato é que se apaixonara pela missão que, inicialmente, ele próprio achara um "abacaxi tremendo".

do not say the French cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea.' Admiral St Vincent

By mid-afternoon, Villeneuve was forced to abandon any hope of getting his fleet out before dusk.

By midday on 19 October, only nine of his ships had managed to clear the harbour.

Almost a mile to the north, the Victory was still short of the enemy line,

It could not have happened at a worse moment for the Victory.

The manoeuvre was difficult at the best of times. In the dark, it was almost impossible.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire