Obstacles Quotes - Page 18

• Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.

  Teresa Mummert

  Dream, Dark, Overcoming

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• It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted a throne had not her cradle been rocked in a prison. Surmounted obstacles not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles; for virtue must be learnt, though, unfortunately, some of the vices come as it were by inspiration.

  James Sharp

  Struggle, Inspiration, Adversity

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• I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'

  Drew Barrymore

  Kids, Thinking, Worry

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• Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mutiny, Spirit

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• Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Gold, Mutiny

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.760, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

  Vicente Fox

  Jobs, People, Inspire

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• Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.

  Tucker Max

  Opportunity, Ifs

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• I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Beautiful, Fate, Overcoming

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• Saying “I'll try” means our soul isn't really in it. We tell ourselves “I'll try” when our inflated egos won't come clean and admit that we're actually not all that determined. We can't overcome obstacles with the words “I'll try.” As Yoda, the philosopher in the Star Wars movies, says, “Do, or do not. There is no 'try.

  Chris Powell

  Stars, War, Mean

  Chris Powell (2011). “Choose to Lose: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Solution”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• I firmly believe that deep in their soul everyone has a champion that can overcome obstacles and do great things.

  Bruce Jenner

  Believe, Soul, Champion

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• A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Girl, Sex, Making Love

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

  Andre Breton

  Heart, Poetry, Understanding

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• Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

  Deepak Chopra

  Opportunity, Soul, Disguise

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• If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving, Ifs

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• Our assignment is not only to make visits but to consistently carry the Spirit into homes, to bless families with the pure love of Christ, to inspire, encourage, lift, and fortify. Every home is in need of additional support. Visiting teachers bring that blessed reinforcement. It is a sacred trust we have been given. We can overcome the obstacles.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Teacher, Blessed, Home

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• There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.

  John Owen

  Grace, Overcoming, Spirit

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• Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Women, Clouds

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• In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

  Erica Jong

  Passion, Divorce, Motherhood

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

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• I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Morning, Moving

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.49, Penguin

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• So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Friendship, Self, Feelings

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• God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda that aims to remove all obstacles to their sin. Their goal is to 'break God's bands asunder and cast away His cords.' They counsel together to rid themselves of the law of God; anyone who preaches the gospel or stands for righteousness stands in the way of their agenda.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Block

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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• My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

  Bear Grylls

  Motivational, Education, Life Lesson

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• Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba—outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another—before interdigitating with related ideas.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Time, Work, Ideas

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Opposites, Matter

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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