Quotes About Obstacles

Finance is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome when trying to turn your business idea into reality.

When I pray, do I concentrate more on the "mountain" I want removed or on God, who can remove it?

The problem is not that humans are by nature incapable of knowing how to love, but that the circumstances of their lives often prevent them from learning.

Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

I'd have thought that persuading people to do what they wanted to do would have been easier.

Well," said the frog, "what are you going to do about it?" "Marrying Therandil? I don't know. I've tried talking to my parents, but they won't listen, and neither will Therandil." "I didn't ask what you'd said about it," the frog snapped. "I asked what you're going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

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There is a myth in this country that the way out of poverty is to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," that by sheer force of will one can change the course of one's life, no matter how great the obstacles. But in all my years reporting, I've never once spoken to someone who came from abject poverty and transcended that path without help.

It seems as though the only things causing pain around here are these ridiculous walls we keep building.

Through Hell or high water." "It'll probably be both.

We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.

If you'd known how difficult it was, you never would have stood a chance of doing it.

true stories seldom take the straightest way.

If you'd known how difficult it was, you never would've stood a chance of doing it.

We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality.

Se você bater no muro, não pare.

Life got in the way -- two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more money, all the muck that bogs us down when we don't have the balls to stand up for ourselves -- but I had never lost my interest in books.

In a lovely paper called "Suspense in the Absence of Uncertainty," Richard Gerrig points out that suspense can be created even if one knows the outcome—the election of George Washington as president, say, or the successful creation of the atomic bomb by the United States in World War II—so long as there is uncertainty about how the obstacles are dealt with. It is this surmounting of obstacles that can pull us in; they're what give the opportunity of pleasure.

have no dramatic tension and would be boring. Finally, a focus on obstacles makes clear how the attraction of aversive fiction connects to what draws us in real life. In our actual lives, we seek out projects with difficulty and struggle, ones that involve surmounting obstacles. This is a large part of what gives life meaning.

Their disappointed thinking had a fatal flaw in it. What they saw as being in the way of God's plan was actually part of his plan; what caused their faith to weaken was actually God's tool to build their faith.

How often do you see people as obstacles to ministry rather than the objects of it?

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.