logo

Quotes About Obstacles

This tree wishes you no harm. God around it in peace. You are hurting yourself......The traveling was a little easier after that, knowing it was not necessary to destroy each tree that blocked him.
~ Don Berry
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
~ Don Wilder and Bill Rechin
When a passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet at him melodiously first, but if he still obstacles your passage, then tootle him with vigor.
~ Donald J. Sobol
Never view obstacles in your path as the enemy. Rather, view any obstacles as detour signs to avoid pitfalls.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
~ B. C. Forbes
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
~ Hugh Miller
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
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.
~ John C. Maxwell
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
~ John Wayne
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
~ Beatrice Wood
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
~ Protagoras
Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.
~ Bruce Lee
Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
~ Jean M. Auel
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
~ Paulo Coelho
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
~ Anton Chekhov
Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.
~ Diane Keaton
There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.
~ Unknown
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
~ Ramakrishna
Quit worrying about people that are trying to hold you back. God knows how to move the wrong people out of your life and bring the right people in. He knows how to prepare you to Break Out.
~ Joel Osteen
Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.
~ Tony Horton