Quotes About Obstacles

We all have vulnerabilities that can sidetrack us from reaching our goals. Recognize the times when you're most likely to give into temptation, and make it harder for a single moment of weakness to sabotage your best efforts.

Growing up, I'd always been told that my biggest weakness was my body and how that was probably going to hold me back from accomplishing my dreams.

The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.

I am tired and weary because people are continually forcing me off the road. I was actually honked off once.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

I'm a successful individual and maneuvering in a culture where there are some racists. I still find a way to get to the top, whether I go around or weave through.

In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.

Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.

I realized there wasn't a structure in place at the time to have female mentors in positions above you. If there were women above me, they had gone through such a difficult time to get there that they had internalized the idea that women share the same space in the writers' room.

Often, when people like me are elected or appointed to positions of senior leadership, the rules of the game seem to change.

Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.

I still have to stand on a box to post a letter.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

When you tell a recruiter that you're almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn't go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

Two of our favorite excuses for holding onto a few extra pounds and being out of shape: Too little time and too little money.

There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.

It's not rocket science. It's not super high technology to construct border barriers.

For me, it's never really been a road block for me to shoot, it's just a matter of me continuing to shoot and shooting with confidence.