Quotes About Obstacles

Thus, one of the obstacles that lay in the path of the missionaries was partly overcome. A presentation of gifts seemed the obvious next step. Perhaps a carefully-planned, regular program of gift-drops, made over a period of time, would show the Indians that the intentions of these white men were friendly, and the repetition would gradually convince them.

Problems escaped from aren't problems resolved

Nothing will brings lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart.

You know...it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads to another door, which leads to another hallway. But then one day you open a door and it's to a closet. It doesn't go anywhere.

Nothing will bring lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...

You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

Why am I here? What have I been called to do? How am I getting in my own way? How can I best live out my destiny?

When you insist on your limitations, you are stuck with them.

Is it sometimes a difficult path? Sure. Does it make for an interesting life? The most. Will the inevitable difficulties and obstacles associated with creativity make you suffer? That part—cross my heart—is entirely up to you.

When you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch – there's not a chance.

There are songs, Waits says, that simply will not allow themselves to be born, and that will hold up the recording of an entire album.

Well, God's vision is clearer than mine, he may both see a way out of this tangle and open my eyes to it when the time is ripe. There's a path through every forest, and a safe passage somewhere through every marsh, it needs only the finding.

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

So, for people of colour to even make it to the point where they could be considered for college admission, or employment in managerial or professional occupations, they had to overcome obstacles that white admissions tutors and employers simply did not have to face and remained unaware of.

I hear them. But am I going to let it stop me reading?

Know yourself who you are, Know your inner potentials, motivations and purposes, Know what blocks you.

Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.

Building a better mousetrap isn't always rewarded when the mice have a say in the matter

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.