Quotes About Obstacles

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

I feel like if I get my legs under me, strengthen my legs up a lot more I'll be able to get out there and face the challenges of a 3.

I'm confident in my strengths. I'm prepared to jump any hurdle.

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

There are a couple of things I would have liked to have done, but the producer or director couldn't stretch the concept to allow for my size. Whenever that happens, I just say, 'Deal with it, and try to get the weight off, and get on with your life.'

I've said this quite often, there was a certain stretch in my career where my gender held me back.

I came to understand and observe that we're all going to face obstacles. We're going to have challenges. We're going to fail. We're going to have success. But all of it is going to ultimately be character-building. And it's not going to deter us from wanting to achieve, to strive, and be successful.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

You're always striving to get better, and I would get in my own way sometimes or stop myself if I felt it wasn't as good as it should be. You're going to fall on your face a couple of times, and the lesson is to get back up.

God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.

Not only the attackers, but the defenders - it's on the attackers to prepare themselves to break through the strong defense.

Bollywood has taught me a lot of lessons. Sometimes it has been very hard, but every struggle and obstacle that I overcame made me stronger and made me more aware.

For too long, government officials have tinkered with Mexico's economic structure through piecemeal reforms that seek to ensure political stability but that do not address the key obstacles to greater innovation and competitiveness.

Coming from a film family didn't help me much and I had to struggle a lot.

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

We struggled for years before we got that record deal. It was tough because we were girls. People were slamming doors in our faces for years.