Hindrance Quotes - Page 2

• I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

  Martin Yan

  Thinking, Fame, Constraints

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• Why fear ye that the Lord Jesus Christ will not accept of you? Your sins will be no hindrance, your unworthiness no hindrance; if your own corrupt hearts do not keep you back, nothing will hinder Christ from receiving of you.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Heart, Receiving

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• Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Essentials, Useless

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• The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

  William Hazlitt

  Perfection, Mind, Determined

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• When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

  Yuvraj Singh

  Country, Real, Play

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• A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

  Paul Butterfield

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

  Plato

  Plato, Swimming, Feelings

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• Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

  Tim Ferriss

  Blessing, Tyrants, Helping

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• Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

  Margery Allingham

  Anger, Alcohol, Perception

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.170, Ipso Books

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• I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Self, Perspective, Devil

  "Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers".

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• The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Important, World, Body

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.44, Gospel For Asia Books

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• Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered 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.

  James Buckham Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Powerful

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• Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

  A. B. Simpson

  Jesus, Challenges, Path

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• In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system. Then as soon as we reach India, 1959, at once we start working for democratization. Now here if remain in a political sort of field, supreme leader, at the same time religious leader, that may become hindrance of proper democracy.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Responsibility, Political

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

  Rembrandt

  Crush, Creativity, Age

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• A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Order, One Day, Determined

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• Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Saint, Should

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.54, Discovery House

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• one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Happiness, Tendencies, Present Day

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.

  Laurance Labadie

  Order, Land, Rights

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Machines, Synthesis

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Believe, Realization

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• I think in general I personally have a tendency to protect other people's feelings, and I've noticed that becomes a major hindrance to communication. It's better to just be honest, even if it's painful.

  Joe Swanberg

  Communication, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Practice, Important, Realizing

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.

  Peter Brook

  Photography, Reality, Views

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• As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.

  Bette Davis

  Thinking, Female, Resentment

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