Quotes About Obstacles

What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.

In life, take it head on. If that doesn't work, don't back down, keep trying until the brickwall that's blocking your path comes crashing down before you. Then, that's when you know you can easily over come your problems.

The only thing stopping you from reaching your goals is your refusal to FIGHT. You keep letting your problems and life make you give up.

Life is like crossing a river. When you dive into it, there must be wave. To get you goal, you must swim.

Don't let the challenges and the obstacles that you face in life deter you from the victories and the blessings that you know you deserve.

Nothing ever happens quickly. Nothing is ever, ever easy. Most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan.

Alexander Aphrodisius said that there are three causes which prevent men from discovering the exact truth: first, arrogance and vainglory; secondly, the subtlety, depth, and difficulty of any subject which is being examined; thirdly, ignorance and want of capacity to comprehend what might be comprehended.

Anticipate problems and prepare to overcome obstacles. Don't wait until you get to the top of the ridge and then make up your mind.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

Even if we had gone away together when I wanted us to, we would've been together for a year, maybe two. But sooner or later, other people would've found a way to wedge us apart.

Wir hindern Gott, uns die großen geistlichen Gaben, die er für uns bereit hat, zu schenken, weil wir für die täglichen Gaben nicht danken.

Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.

Common sign rulerships bestow difficult and arduous lives and success gained against great odds, attended with heavy responsibilities. Men born under common signs usually start out early in life on courses of independent action.

all of the goods of earth and heaven are meant to help us on the way to salvation, but they can become obstacles if we relate to them with possessiveness.

The purpose of the referee is to present obstacles for players to overcome as they go about seeking their goals, not to constantly make trouble for them. This is a subtle distinction, and one that many beginners have trouble with.

Unfortunately the next day was not the vast, extraneous expanse of time which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer.

A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan.

My life had been like a painter who climbs up a road overhanging a lake that is hidden from view by a screen of rocks and trees. Through a gap he glimpses it, he has it all there in front of him, he takes up his brushes.

God could have over-ruled every difficulty in your way, had he seen it expedient. But he is pleased to show you, that you depend not upon men—but upon himself; and that, notwithstanding your situation, may exclude you from some advantages in point of outward means. He who has begun a good work in you, is able to carry it on, in defiance of all seeming hindrances, and make all things (even those which have the most unfavorable appearances) work together for your good.

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

I climb fences when i got fences to climb.