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Quotes About Obstacles

Nada logra detener la pasión encendida de dos personas enamoradas. En ese caso no importan los achaques de la existencia, el furor de los años, la torpeza física o la mezquindad de oportunidades, los amantes se las arreglan para amarse porque por definición ése es su destino.
~ Isabel Allende
la tenacidad de una pasión nacida en la distancia, alimentada con cartas románticas y fortalecida por una verdadera montaña de inconvenientes.
~ Isabel Allende
My friends and family unknowingly tend to get in the way when I'm in my creative zones.
~ Amber Mark
Whenever we have penalties and take a 10-yard penalty down the red zone, it gets tough.
~ Ryan Tannehill
During my third season of 'Zoo,' I was picked up by a car to go to work. We had this huge scene to shoot that day, but the traffic was just gridlock. My transportation guy got a call saying, 'Where are you? We need to start shooting.' So I got out of the car and just took off running by all of these cars that weren't moving an inch.
~ James Wolk
Long is the road from conception to completion.
~ Moliere
The only way round is through.
~ Robert Frost
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.
~ Clarence Day
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.
~ Albert Schweitzer
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
~ William Cowper
Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
~ M. Scott Peck
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.
~ Charles F. Kettering
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
~ Abigail Adams
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
~ Elbert Hubbard
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
~ John F. Kennedy
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
~ Frederic Chopin
There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but... they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
~ Cookie Lavagetto
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.
~ Ralph J. Bunche
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
~ Anonymous
I said here's the river I want to flow on, here's the direction I want to go, and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.
~ Nancy Woodhull
Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
~ Anonymous
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
~ Pearl S. Buck
In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow