Quotes About Obstacles

My life has thrown up many challenges, good and bad, and nine times out of 10 I come through them.

Life throws curveballs.

What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.

If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you'd get nowt done.

Everyone knows life throws you curve balls, in my case it's like life throws me giant boulders.

Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.

When I started going to training my father used to take me. But that meant we had to buy two bus tickets and it was not easy for us, you know.

Sometimes you have something to say, but you cannot say it through movies because there are restrictions - situations given by the director that you have to follow - so you are tied up.

That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did.

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.

It's hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can't kick in skinny, skinny jeans.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

If we go on behaving in the same way, we will crash. If we pretend that those obstacles in our character don't exist, or are something else entirely, we will still crash. But if we acknowledge them and behave in a different way, we will come to a better and safer place.

What we resist, will persist.

It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.

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

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

The challenge is, we can want to change, we can even know we need to change, but that doesn't mean we will change.

The challenge is, we can want to change, we can even know we need to change, but that doesn't necessarily mean we will change.

Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist's ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.