Quotes About Obstacles

one of the Library's mottos was borrowed directly from the great military thinker Clausewitz: no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

They were the stumbling blocks, not MacArthur.

King Kong would have made it to the top if only he had taken the elevator.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Julie has developed some issues." Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.

Things would be so easy if it wasn't for feelings.

Kate usually dealt with things by talking, and when that didn't work, chopping obstacles into tiny pieces and frying them with magic so they didn't get back up.

but lately life had taken a baseball bat to her plans.

Now we had two invisible intruders. Because one wasn't hard enough.

Ah love nothing (except junk), ah hate nothing (except forces that prevent me getting any) and ah fear nothing (except not scoring).

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

Consegue entender que, ao afastar as armadilhas e vicissitudes que perseguem o homem, a Eternidade não deixa que ele encontre suas próprias soluções, boas e amargas, soluções reais que chegam quando a dificuldade é enfrentada, não evitada?

Los budistas dicen que la vida es un río, que navegamos en una balsa hacia el destino final. El río tiene su corriente, velocidad, escollos, remolinos y otros obstáculos que no podemos controlar, pero contamos con un remo para dirigir la embarcación sobre el agua. De nuestra destreza depende la calidad del viaje.

The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

Enfrenta los obstáculos a medida que se presenten, no pierdas energía temiendo lo que pueda haber en el futuro

Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It's a slow-growing plant.

triunfan. El naipe determina quiénes somos: edad, género, raza, familia, nacionalidad, etcétera, y no lo podemos cambiar, sólo podemos usarlo lo mejor posible. En ese juego hay obstáculos y oportunidades, estrategias y trampas.