Quotes About Obstacles

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

Paris to Jack and most others, then, was a network of deep trenches with vertical walls, and a few drafty battlements atop those walls—otherwise, the world's largest collection of closed and locked doors.

his first instinct with things that troubled him was to wall them off, and then wait for them to grow bad enough to threaten the structural integrity of the wall, and then, finally, to get out a sledgehammer.

1. How is it possible that 6.9 billion people can all claim to want the same thing (peace, security, opportunity, prosperity, happiness, and love) and be singularly unable to get it?

Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others.

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

We wear our problems diffrently

We wear our problems differently.

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

I'll fail. At school. Right. No, it's not exactly school. It's what comes after school. At life

Obstacles are those frightening things that appear when we take our mind off our goals

Brick walls are opaque to our eyes, but to microwaves those walls are transparent, which is why we can talk on our cell phones while indoors.

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

The underlying cause of most unfulfilled lives is that we are simply too close to ourselves to see clearly enough to get out of our own way.

It's not society that holds us back, it's ourselves. We just blame society because not only is it easier but it's a nearly impossible weight to move. This way, we don't actually have to change.

If the root issues are not faced and resolved, growth will be stymied.

But, you know, shit happens even when you have a shit shield with you.