Quotes About Obstacles

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.

I loathe law. It seems to me as if it were merely an elaborate series of obstacles to doing things sensibly. And yet, of course, after all, one must have formalities, just as in flying you have to make arrangements for starting and stopping. But it is a beastly nuisance to have to attend to them.

En la política, querido Gerardo, lo sabes como yo: no hay hombres, si no ideas; no hay sentimientos, sino intereses; en política no se mata a un hombre, sino que se suprime un obstáculo...

Es necesaria la desgracia para socavar ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas para la inteligencia humana; es precisa la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora

Ma ci sono navi che si sono incagliate nei posti più assurdi. Una vita si può ben incagliare in una faccia qualunque.

Oh, difficulties do not affright me, said D'Artagnan. I shrink before nothing but impossibilities.

It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.

Small ones too, Mma Sometimes big problems are really tiny ones when you look at them in the right way.

did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the wind is against them,—I tacked.

Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.

Ah, no difficulties can ever daunt me,' replied d'Artagnan: 'my only fear is, of impossibilities.' 'Nothing is impossible,' said the lady, 'to the one who truly loves.' 'Nothing, madame?' 'Nothing' she replied.

hearts inflamed by obstacles to their desire grew cold in time of security;

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Es su derecho de nacimiento tener una vida poderosa, pacifica y significativa. Aunque pasar por momentos dolorosos y obstaculos es una manera de lograr la madurez espiritual, no es la unica. Usted verdaderamente puede lograr la iluminacion con una vida pacifica, porque usted ya esta iluminado ahora mismo.

As is usual with the ignorant, long words had the fascination for both girls that obstacles on the road have for a bad driver; instead of avoiding them they ran into them.

Love has a dangerous way of simplifying, for the lovers, things that cannot be simplified. Lovers can rarely see why they cannot be allowed to love, to be together. Why not, they naively wonder, since nothing else matters?

Fear is one of the biggest things that will stop you from moving forward and doing the things that will get you to your destiny.

A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality." —Winston Churchill

We're our own worst enemy.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

biggest roadblocks you encounter in life are the ones you construct for yourself.

Working to keep negative information out during a difficult conversation is like trying to swim without getting wet.

We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however, count on God to patiently remove all the obstacles to our enjoyment of Him. He is committed to our joy, and we can depend on Him to give us enough of a taste of that joy and enough hope that the best is still ahead to keep us going in spite of how much pain continues to plague our hearts.

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you