Quotes About Obstacles

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

There's an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: 'The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.'

Don't underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.

If you don't believe in brick walls, you will still be injured when you run headlong into one.

We see tools and obstacles, not objects or things.

They can't do it without wandering down blind alleys or making contradictory or even nonsensical claims. This is partly because talking (and thinking) is often more about forgetting than about remembering.

Consider, as well, that you may be blocked in your progress not because you lack opportunity, but because you have been too arrogant to make full use of what already lies in front of you.

We become stronger by voluntarily facing what impedes our necessary progress.

I will be your worst nightmare," was his phrase of choice, in such situations. I have wished intensely that I could say something like that, after encountering unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles, but it's generally best to let such things go.

It requires the willingness to change, which is almost always indistinguishable from the decision to leave something (or someone, or some idea) behind. Therefore, the simplest response imaginable is to look away and refuse to think, while simultaneously erecting unsurmountable impediments to genuine communication.

Remember, it's not the job of salespeople to turn nos into yeses; it's simply not what they do. Instead, we turn "Let me think about it" into a yes, and "Let me call you back" into a yes, and "I need to speak to my wife" into a yes, and "It's a bad time of year" into a yes.

Quien obtiene favores sin tener méritos, debe temblar: fracasará después, cien veces, en cada cambio de viento. Los nobles ingenios solo confían en sí mismos, luchan, salvan los obstáculos, se imponen.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong lane

The toughest bullshit to cut through, is one's own.

she managed to trip over a half-buried stone and a stray twig before she even reached them. Good luck with taking her anywhere, he thought. Maybe that's what Jayfeather's omen meant.