Quotes About Obstacles

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which to go, we have begun our journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects, like me?

We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple. We were six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.

beyond the very extremity of fatigue-distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own,—sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction, never pass those early critical points.

But certain difficulties lay in his way if he were himself to lead the counterrevolution, and he was not much interested in it unless he was.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Limitations are but boundaries in our minds

Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills.

If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Clarity dissolves resistance.

there's a good reason why change can be difficult: The world doesn't always want what you want.

new habits can clear the Path.

to make changes stick, we've got to think about shaping the Path.

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Pits need to be filled.

The answer may sound strange: You need to create the expectation of failure—not the failure of the mission itself, but failure en route.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art. That pretty much sums up my existence, she thinks.

Remember that if what you're fighting for matters, the obstacles don't.

My handicap? Woods and irons.

Or as Thomas Edison put it, "Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

What tasks I've completed since the last daily scrum. What tasks I expect to complete by the next daily scrum. What obstacles are slowing me down.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.