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Quotes About Obstacle

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.
~ Dwayne Johnson
As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.
~ Jack Paar
Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.
~ Ernie Els
Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.
~ Olivia Wilde
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
~ Terence
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
~ W. C. Fields
I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.
~ Lena Dunham
That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.
~ Jim C. Hines
A minimum of three and a half hours. Probably closer to five." The vent's valve mechanism was meant to be serviced from the other side. It took half an hour of fighting to find a decent angle with the wrench and remove the bolts. She finally managed to tug it loose, at which point she had to spend another twenty minutes using her torch to cut the damned thing into smaller pieces so she could get it out of her way.
~ Jim C. Hines
The federal government is looking for one obstacle after another to place hurdles before this industry," Nelson warned. "Pretty soon it's going to be air. They're going to say you can't use the air because it belongs to the federal government. It's just ridiculous.
~ Jim Marrs
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech–every now and then she stops to breathe.
~ Jimmy Durante
Eu sei: nojo é invenção, do Que-Não-Há, para estorvar que se tenha dó.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
O lugar onde esbarramos, no É-Já, era logo depois da ponte de pau, que estando esburacada:
~ João Guimarães Rosa
When I was born, my mother asked, 'Will she live?' The doctor said, "Only if you take your foot off her throat
~ Joan Rivers
the wall. Then he grabbed his
~ Joanna Wylde
Humans were no end of trouble even before they did anything.
~ Anne Bishop
As a sweet apple turns red on a high branch, high on the highest branch and the applepickers forgot— well, no they didn't forget—were not able to reach
~ Anne Carson
The learning context exerts very strong effects on whether a particular individual characteristic becomes an impediment to learning.
~ Anne Meyer
Fellow-graduates: Duty bids us go forth into active life. Let us go cheerfully, hopefully, and earnestly, and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God and make life more as He would have it.
~ Anne Sullivan
She didn't know the answer. But there had to be a way. There was always a way.
~ Anne Ursu
Allene had clearly inherited one thing from her pioneering forefathers, and that was the conviction that if there wasn't a road, there must be a detour that would get you where you wanted to go. And if there wasn't a detour, a road had to be built. "If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things," she wrote later.
~ Annejet van der Zijl
There has to be a way," she said, determinedly. "Nothing is impossible." Bean stared at her. "It's impossible for us to be good at ballet." "Well, that, sure," said Ivy. "But it's not impossible for us to break our arms.
~ Annie Barrows
The shinbone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
~ Anonymous
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
~ Alan Rosenberg