Quotes About Obstacles

I could have pursued her. A paper clip could best the catch, but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

There were lots of Spanish teams who didn't want to sign me because of my height when I was 15, 16 years old.

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

I didn't have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn't help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.

Unfortunately we live in a world where I think women aren't actively encouraged or at least not empowered to make good work in every creative sphere, particularly in comedy.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.

It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.

Don't depend on luck to solve problems.

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.