Hindrance Quotes

• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophical, Self, Execution

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.57, Tuttle Publishing

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• The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.509

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• The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Advancement, Standing Alone, Despotism

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world isn't perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn't apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

  Chloe Neill

  Hurt, Perfection, Being Sad

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• The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

  Seneca the Younger

  Today, Waste, Tomorrow

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• The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Self, Fool

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Long, Sorrow

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

  Ernest Hello

  Success, Giving Up, Moving

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• It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

  Billy Graham

  Religion, Poverty, Evangelism

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• Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  James Buckham Kennedy

  Depression, Wise, Adversity

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• Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Self, Sage

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• Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

  Epictetus

  Responsibility, Choices, Body

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  William Butler Yeats

  Adversity, Temptation, Soul

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• Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

  Plato

  Life, Plato, Philosophical

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• You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

  Ralph Steadman

  Reform, Development, Way

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• My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Mean, Looks, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Self, Kind

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• Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

  Paul Simon

  Break Up, People, Track

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• Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Empty Mind, Water

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

  Bruce Lee

  Effectiveness, Water, Cracks

  "Fear Vs. Faith". Book by Wade Rich, 2012.

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.179, Tuttle Publishing

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• Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

  Bruce Lee

  Blank Mind, Empty Mind, Water

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.138, Tuttle Publishing

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