Quotes About Obstacles

You can't expect not to face obstacles in life. When people meet, their different energies conflict. Where there is no energy, there is no conflict and wher there is no conflict, there is no creation. Conflict is the source of creation. One needs to know how to powerfully embrace the tension that arises when opposing energies meet, when there's conflict and struggle.

Mountains are moved with faith, Immaculee, but if faith were easy, all the mountains would be gone.

Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.

There are also many natural talents that are suppressed because their exercise would conflict with prevailing

Los hombres construimos demasiados muros y no suficientes puentes.

A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere.

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

We simply have to learn how to skillfully get out of our own way. Getting out of our own way allows the deep reservoirs of peace and happiness within us to reveal themselves so we may gain more ready access to them.

There are a number of people who can't seem to realize that things could be mighty rough—even rougher than they are now—if there wasn't the slightest bit of deterrence.

I therefore hope you will pray about your problems in front of the Gohonzon. When we take our problems to the Gohonzon and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, courage wells forth and hope begins to shine in our hearts. "Faith for overcoming obstacles" is the same as "prayer for overcoming obstacles" and "chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for overcoming obstacles.

defeat for a Buddhist lies not in encountering difficulties but rather in not challenging them. Difficulties only truly become our destiny if we run away from them.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

We also face psychological obstacles in responding to climate change. Evolution built us to respond to rapid movements of middle-sized objects, not to the slow buildup of insensible gases in the atmosphere. Most of us respond dramatically to what we sense, not to what we think. As a result, even those of us who are concerned about climate change find it difficult to feel its urgency and to act decisively.

When you're involved in the work of the Lord, the power behind you is always greater than the obstacles before you.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eye off the goal." —Hannah More6

Three great obstacles to progress: guilt, envy, and resentment.

But success, she was beginning to realize, was not as much a destination as an endless freeway clogged with hazards.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

Envision a reachable goal, and envision the obstacles. The thing is, as Oettingen discovered, this method works, triggering significant changes in behavior and motivation.

Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul," Bjork said. "One real encounter, even for a few seconds, is far more useful than several hundred observations.

It's called mental contrasting, and it seems less like science than the kind of advice you might come across on a late-night infomercial: Envision a reachable goal, and envision the obstacles. The thing is, as Oettingen discovered, this method works, triggering significant changes in behavior and motivation.

in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into...