Quotes About Obstacles

A successfull man is who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at us.

They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave unnaturally. In nature animals flee cold and seek warmth and comfort. But Bobo naturalists flee comfort and seek cold and deprivation.

The best intentions frequently met their match around me.

Whenever we try to improve things and fail, it is not because the spiteful (or unfathomably benevolent) gods are thwarting us or punishing us for trying, or because we have reached a limit on the capacity of reason to make improvements, or because it is best that we fail, but always because we did not know enough, in time.

Sometimes you cannot program around stupid.

Tal es el privilegio de los artistas, dejar obras que le pongan obstáculos a la muerte.

Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead

Damn the torpedoes, Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed! (frequently erroreously quoted as 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead')

Sometimes we find ourselves thinking that since the call comes from the Lord, everything ought to work out smoothly, with every potential obstacle removed. We forget sometimes that life is a "schooling" provided for our growth and development, and that if every time we went on the Lord's errand, things were to go perfectly well because of the Lord's blessing, we would be deprived of much of our education. {re 1 Nephi 3:7}

19th March, 1873.—Thanks to the Almighty Preserver of men for sparing me thus far on the journey of life. Can I hope for ultimate success? So many obstacles have arisen. Let not Satan prevail over me, Oh! my good Lord Jesus.

Mr. Stanley has done his part with untiring energy; good judgment in the teeth of very serious obstacles. His helpmates turned out depraved blackguards, who, by their excesses at Zanzibar and elsewhere, had ruined their constitutions, and prepared their systems to be fit provender for the grave. They had used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no service, but rather downdrafts and unbearable drags to progress.

The additional R is that of resistance. When you bring in changes there is opposition from those who do not want to have change. This is to be expected, and yet we continue to be surprised by this resistance when it occurs.

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.