Quotes About Obstacles

It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.

Sometimes life seemed to be a machine designed to crush dreams as effectively as a junkyard hydraulic press crumpled cars into compact cubes.

Believe me, you still have a long way to fall, a very long way.

the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft a-gley.

Technology changes nothing. People were people before and after the steam engine, before and after the airplane. But Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not quite now. Walls. That's what it is. The problem is walls.

Stormy believed that 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. To be with her again, I will have the perseverance of a bulldog, but it seems to me that the training is unnecessarily hard.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Temos de nos reconciliar com os obstáculos que não conseguimos derrubar. Admitir que fazem parte de algo que não foi desenhado por nós e que nem sempre podemos alterar.

Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

Use the art of reduction in every aspect of life. The Tao is all about simplicity, so the Tao process is about subtraction rather than addition. Remove obstacles and complexity to unleash the power of your natural capabilities and to fully express your vast potential.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

In television, there are so many things between you making a joke and the audience seeing it. It's like an assault course.

When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.

I had to start all the way down the divisions and that is really difficult. You might be playing well and having great performances - but nobody ever watched us.

Me and Dr. Dre didn't speak for a while because I was going through my problems.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.

I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope I don't run into that problem.

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

Enemies are dispirited when they see you happy. They know their purpose can be thwarted.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.

Having an enthusiasm to move doesn't necessarily mean that the Lord has blessed you with the feet to do so.

I have the same problems that everybody else does.