Quotes About Obstacles

Al principio de la pasión, los obstáculos asustan a las personas sin experiencia, y los que encontraban los dos amantes se parecían mucho a las ataduras con que los liliputienses habían atado a Gulliver. Eran cosas sin importancia que al multiplicarse hacían imposible todo impulso y anulaban los más violentos deseos.

But my story is as much one of perseverance and drive as it is of talent and luck. I willed it to happen. I took my life in my hands, learned from anyone I could, grabbed what opportunity I could, and molded my success step by step. Fear of failure drove me at first, but as I tackled each challenge, my anxiety was replaced by a growing sense of optimism. Once you overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, other hurdles become less daunting.

It is never to be forgotten that one of the ways by which men measure their own significance is to be found in the amount of power and energy other men must use in order to crush them or hold them back.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

Success is a collection of problems solved.

Railways, like Daleks, have difficulties in getting up hills.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it'.

Cualquier cosa puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres inepto para éste.

El burro que te trajo a esta puerta debe ser desechado si quieres atravesarla".

El hombre impaciente es su propio enemigo, cierra de golpe la puerta de su propio progreso.

La puerta de la iluminación se abre para quienes otras puertas están cerradas.

Nadie puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres apto para éste.

Propio es del mal espíritu morder, tristar y poner impedimentos, inquietando con falsas razones para que no pase adelante; y propio del bueno dar ánimo y fuerzas, consolaciones, lágrimas, inspiraciones y quietud, facilitando y quitando todos impedimentos, para que en el bien obrar proceda adelante.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

A peaceful life doesn't mean one that has no conflict or struggle . . . a life that avoids conflict never changes. We must live making sounds like the stream of water . . . we can produce beautiful sounds in our lives by colliding with obstacles.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Your greatest enemies, are those who prevent you from learning all there is to know and more.

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.

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

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

and the poor slob soon became a lame duck.

Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.