Quotes About Obstacles

Then we had focus problems on the camera, and the assistant cameraman was run over by a car," Lucas recalled with a sigh. "Then we had a five alarm fire. That was a typical night.

El miedo es un derroche de energía; impide a las personas cumplir con aquello para lo cual fueron enviados.

If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.

Life is a maze of doors, and all too often they are closed.

The walls in front of us are not there to keep us from achieving our desire. They are there to see how bad we want what we desire.

In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus.

This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

It is easy to keep things at a distance; it is hard to be naturally beyond them.

Al trasladarse de un río a otro, los wabanakis tenían que acarrear sus canoas y el resto de sus posesiones. Todos conocían el valor de viajar ligero y comprendían que ello requería dejar atrás algunas cosas. El miedo, con frecuencia la carga más difícil de abandonar, era lo que más entorpecía el movimiento.

Nothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues. A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others, and may chance to make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.

that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

y, avanzando, era como una noche sombría

Dear me, what an unsatisfactory world it was! When one did find a nice kind of life something or somebody always seemed to shove you out of it just as you were beginning to enjoy it.

Never lift your foot till you come to the stile.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on.