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Quotes About Obstacles

a little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.
~ David Levithan
There is the distance of miles, and the distance of brothers, to overcome. He can feel the world coming between them again. But the world is so much smaller than it used to be.
~ David Levithan
No one should believe those who surround "the ballot box with obstacles and sinuosities . . . intended to . . . defeat . . . the elective franchise.
~ David W. Blight
immobilized their vehicles. And some of their
~ David Weber
reached the
~ David Weber
What were you to do when you didn't know anyone who could help you, no one who could explain the way to the things you wanted- what could you do- you couldn't just take a spade, a few bricks, and a gerenium and see what happened. You had to be rich, you had to be educated; you had to be powerful to stop contagious ugliness from spreading.
~ Dawn Powell
One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.
~ Dean Koontz
we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure.
~ Dean Koontz
Kabbalah tells us that when things are difficult, it means that some kind of Light is trying to be revealed.
~ Yehuda Berg
Things don't like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and I have always had a complicated relationship.
~ Unknown
Things don't like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and I have always had a complicated relationship. Soup served to me never cools. Any little thing—a coin or a cuff link—that falls off the table usually rolls away under furniture that's hard to move. I crawl across the floor and lifting my head I see the sideboard laughing.)
~ Unknown
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
~ Zig Ziglar
She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!
~ Bud Abbott
From the moment I got to Hollywood, I've always felt like I never really got to do what I wanted to do. In general, artists feel that you're never really allowed to accomplish what you would like to accomplish because there's just so much of this system that gets in the way; the business gets in the way of the art.
~ Martin Kove
There are times when things are not going according to plan, and of course, you never want those times.
~ Mario Gotze
Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.
~ Grant Shapps
I've had coaches along the way that actively go out of their way to make sure that I don't succeed. They don't like me.
~ Trevor Bauer
You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.
~ Martin Brodeur
You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when.
~ Andre Ward
There's always going to be adversity.
~ Nick Foles
I'm ready for any adversity that's going to hit.
~ Baker Mayfield
There's always going to be adversity in life. I saw it growing up.
~ Derrick Henry
There's a process in the movie industry in both live action and animation called development hell!
~ Ron Clements