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Quotes About Obstacles

It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.
~ Unknown
Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.
~ Noam Chomsky
Don't let obstacles along the road to eternity shake your confidence in God's promise. The Holy Spirit is God's seal that you will arrive.
~ David Jeremiah
I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.
~ Edwin Moses
Don't stand in the way of your own light. Let yourself shine as you were meant to shine, for only you can.
~ Unknown
High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
~ Jim Rohn
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
~ William F. Halsey
We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
~ Thomas Merton
We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.
~ Dalai Lama
It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.
~ Casey Robinson
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.
~ Confucius
The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.
~ George Washington Carver
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
~ Marco Tempest
discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.
~ Philip Yancey
Where did Christians get the reputation as life-squelchers instead of life-enhancers? Jesus himself promised, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. What keeps us from realizing that abundant life?
~ Philip Yancey
And swore that whatever the obstacles before me, I should be Queen of England.
~ Philippa Gregory
You know, I was dealt a lot of bad hands.
~ Unknown
Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.
~ Unknown
Fighting the low-level cloud cover that's blocking out what you're wanting to see break through into your life.
~ Priscilla Shirer
One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Power, she had come to realize, had the insidious habit of inserting others between you and your tasks, rendering your limbs little more than decorative mementoes of a more human past.
~ R. Scott Bakker