Quotes About Obstacles

The easy road is always under construction, so have an alternate route planned.

This isn't going to work," Justine murmured. "It is going to work," I told her, keeping my tone confident. "We'll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us." Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. "The Rack?" "The Rack is more than just boobs, Justine," I told her soberly. "It's an energy field created by all living boobs. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?

I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.

Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Trials and half a dozen smaller

So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.

It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.

Trails are used by God to teach you humility and dependence on His grace rather than your own strength.

Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do.

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.

Life threw you curveballs, too. Or in her case, more like a curseball. After

Most useless things in the world, men," she muttered as she sent her female slaves scurrying here and there. "They only get in one's way whenever anything important needs to be done.

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

There's good news and slightly less good news.

At17, balanced on that precarious walkway between adolescence and adulthood, the world is a crazy obstacle course paved one day with broken glass, the next with apple blossom.

She followed the highway across the bridge, comparing her own life to the river's flow, swift and steady. She'd weathered obstacles - near death, loss and betrayal - which were like the boulders protruding through the turbulent current. Those hurdles may have slowed her down, but they'd never beaten her

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

No matter how good you are to people, you will always have barriers and enemies on your way to success

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

Don't let hurdles obstruct your path, but use them as a ladder to your destination.

No one reached the summit without some mistakes.

Difficult roads sometimes lead to beautiful destination. The more difficult to reach the destination, the more you will remember the journey.