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Quotes About Obstacles

Ogni rapporto intenso tra esseri umani è pieno di tagliole e se si vuole che duri bisogna imparare a schivarle. Lo
~ Elena Ferrante
Non basta conoscere l'alfabeto, pensò, le difficoltà sono tante.
~ Elena Ferrante
The drive to change one's state must face countless obstacles. One can act on genetic conditioning but not ignore it. Belonging to one class or another can be camouflaged but not canceled out. The individual is in the end only a battlefield, in which privileges and disadvantages war fiercely. What counts in the end is the collective flow of generations. Even when there is both merit and luck, the efforts of a single individual are unsatisfying.
~ Elena Ferrante
D]amit das Kind den Weg durch Intrigen auch findet, schlägt sie an jeder Ecke Wegweiser in den Boden und Erika gleich mit, wenn diese nicht üben will.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things--and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.
~ Elif Batuman
Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile, I went from class to class, read hundreds, thousands of pages of the distilled ideas of the great thinkers of human history, and nothing happened. In high school I had been full of opinions, but high school had been like prison, with constant opposition and obstacles. Once the obstacles were gone, meaning seemed to vanish, too.
~ Elif Batuman
I went from class to class, read hundreds, thousands of pages of the distilled ideas of the great thinkers of human history, and nothing happened. In high school I had been full of opinions, but high school had been like prison, with constant opposition and obstacles. Once the obstacles were gone, meaning seemed to vanish, too.
~ Elif Batuman
I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.
~ Anthony Michael Hall
The real therapy only begins when the patient sees that it is no longer father and mother who are standing in his way, but himself . .
~ Anthony Stevens
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long.
~ Antonio Porchia
A person who can't think much in life usually don't face much challenges and difficulties from the people.
~ Anuj Somany
A person who faces multiple hurdles en route is on the right track else off track of life.
~ Anuj Somany
The very first resistance that a person often faces before embarking on a journey towards life's excellence, is from none but one of the friends or family members in his closest circumference.
~ Anuj Somany
The way of giving protection to a good person by an invisible God is by putting all sorts of hurdles & obstacles on his path when he is going a wrong way.
~ Anuj Somany
If we have deep problems, it's because we are failing at the deepest part of the solution. And when we fail at this deepest level, we invite our own failure.
~ Arbinger Institute
It's the rough side of the mountain that's the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn't have anything for you to hang on to.
~ Aretha Franklin
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —FR. ALFRED D'SOUZA
~ Arianna Huffington
Sir, sir what good are words? They are of no avail with wild beasts of this sort. Don't you know how they have just washed us down--and with no very fragrant soap!
~ Aristophanes
It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).
~ Aristotle
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.
~ Armstrong Williams
Performance is most easily improved not by adding things, but by removing obstacles. Maybe
~ Arno Ilgner
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.
~ Arnold Bennett
I tended to be perfectly comfortable hitting shots from places where no other golfer ever wanted to be. It turned out to be an important lesson about the game: you've got to learn to live with trouble, and you've got to learn how to get out of it.
~ Arnold Palmer