Quotes About Obstacles

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

You have to fight hard to get where you want to be. I never had any backing. I just had to kick the door down and barge through.

I'm still kicking in doors to keep on going.

It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.

I had wanted to become an actress, but in Cane Fork where I come, from being an actress meant the movies and Kim Novak. So I didn't try.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

Stercus Accidit. [barren happens]

She was keen on the idea that a strong mind, enforced with a strong will, could overcome any difficulty.

You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.

But we have to— No we don't. But we can't— Yes we can. But she doesn't— She'll figure it out. But it's— Not your fault and not your problem. But I'm the one— Bloody hell, Ms. Lane, how many "buts" are you going to throw at me besides the only one I want?

You can't go forward if you're looking backward, Mac, Daddy always said. You run into walls that way.

The point is the three of you are dysfunctional, volatile, inefficient, and in my way.

Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

it wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe

Just goes to show that if it has tires or testicles, it's bound to cause you trouble.

Problem behaviors potentially are obstacles in both school and labor market, especially for the African American urban disadvantaged. White men, of both lower and higher SES, evidence problem behavior profiles much like those of African Americans, but less often suffer adverse consequences.

When bad requirements happen to good people

Life is always going to get in the way of our best intentions and most well-made plans.

Many of my river trips came in between jobs as it was a way to take stock and think about my professional path. It was on these in-between-jobs river trips that I realized being an effective leader means gaining the strength of others like tributaries feeding into the river, keeping the flow strong and steady. Instead of trying to blast through obstacles, it is better to negotiate around them with the help of rising waters.

without disturbing the radiance which played and darted about the simple and lovely miracle of being two persons named Adam and Miranda, twenty four years old each, alive and on earth at the same moment: 'Are you in the mood for dancing?' and 'I'm always in the mood for dancing, Adam!' but there were things in the way, the day that ended with dancing was a long way to go.