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Quotes About Obstacles

You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away.
~ Paul Simon
Cavett: What makes you stuck? Simon: Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck.
~ Paul Simon
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~ Unknown
Whatever they were, they were living their lives, out there doing it, making their mistakes. Somehow I'd gotten stuck along the way […] and I didn't know how to free myself exactly.
~ Paula McLain
If you guys can't make it, what chance do the rest of us have?
~ Paula McLain
How are we to help? We need to become aware of all the ways in which we hold the child back from becoming a fully functioning human being: the sink and counter that she cannot reach, the mirror that is too high for her to see herself, the chair that is too big for her to sit comfortably in...the pants that are too tight for her to pull up and down...
~ Unknown
The struggle doesn't end just because you know the way. That's when it's only beginning.
~ Paullina Simons
What were you doing fighting with me at Kirov, knowing all this was stacked against us? Raging against my fate.
~ Paullina Simons
La lucha no termina sólo porque ya conozcas el camino. Eso es sólo el principio.
~ Paullina Simons
The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Dont fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.
~ Paulo Coelho
I think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
~ Paulo Coelho
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
~ Paulo Coelho
One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge men's consciousness.
~ Paulo Freire
Cuando dos personas se atraen, una extraña telekinesis abre entre ellos un camino que aparta todos los obstáculos.
~ Unknown
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." —FRANK HOWARD CLARK
~ Perry Marshall
Weeds choke the life out of anything good that might grow.
~ Unknown
Sometimes the only way out is through.
~ Unknown
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
~ Peter Drucker
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
~ Peter Drucker
I feel that if we do not engage Scripture with future believers in mind, we will unwittingly erect unnecessary and tragic obstacles to belief. Part of what drives this book is my concern to help prevent that scenario.
~ Unknown
It's always quicker and easier to tear things down than it is to build them back up again.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
~ Peter Gabriel
Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.
~ Peter Guber
I don't know if you're in love with someone. If you're not, there's something I would like to say to you, and that is that love comes to everyone. All fifteen years of my experience in life tell me that the world is organized in such a way that all of us find someone to love. Unless we work against it. So if you're not in love with anyone but would like to be, you should try to discover which part of you is working against it.
~ Peter Høeg