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Quotes About Obstacles

I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.
~ Kevin Mitnick
There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.
~ Babyface
You have to go through some things to get to where you want to go.
~ Khris Middleton
You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.
~ Sean McVay
It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.
~ Ralph Steadman
We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.
~ Marta
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
~ William Godwin
If the world stands in between a man and the woman he loves, he will set out to conquer it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The path of true love never ran smooth. More likely you ran out of gas, blew a tire, and hit the wall before you crossed the finish line.
~ Erin McCarthy, Full Throttle
I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.
~ Mary Miller
If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past a lot.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
~ Miriam Toews
As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune. "…What's real is something that not even the strength of the Goddess can change. The only one who can change it is me. If I don't change my destiny, if I don't cut through the obstacles in my path, then no matter where I go, I'll always be standing in the same place, doing the same thing over and over again, for the rest of my life.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam.
~ Modest Mouse
The path of true learning is strewn with rocks, not roses.
~ Mortimer Adler
We do learn and get stronger through the hard stuff, but that's because God is love, not because God's putting us through some kind of obstacle course.
~ Nancy Rue
But none of that matters at all." His head raised to stare balefully at me, but I said, incoherent yet convinced, "It's just—a way to go. There isn't only one way to go." I waved at his notes. "You're trying to find a road where there isn't one. It's like—it's gleaning in the woods," I said abruptly. "You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it's different every time.
~ Naomi Novik
Their aim was to construct engines of history designed to dissolve human culture, closeness and community. United in an alliance of convenience, these forces see human beings and the troublesome individualistic West, with its stubborn insistence on human rights, on joy, on spontaneity, on quirkiness, acceptance, and tolerance, as obstacles to be managed, drained of power and resources, and sidelined.
~ Naomi Wolf
Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats
~ Napoleon Hill
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
~ Napoleon Hill
Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
~ Napoleon Hill
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons.
~ Napoleon Hill