Obstacles Quotes - Page 21

• We're going to face problems on a day to day basis and there's probably going to be that one obstacle that you think oh I'm not going to be able to get through it but just remember if you set your mind to achieve a goal, then you can do it.

  Patrick Henry Hughes

  Thinking, Goal, Mind

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• There are days where maybe the obstacle is too great, maybe I don't want to get up and go to classes or attend that marching band practice, but whenever I have those days, I just realize that I have to get it done and everything will turn out great in the end.

  Patrick Henry Hughes

  Practice, Class, Marching Band

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• Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.

  Patrick Henry Hughes

  Prayer, Roles, Helping

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• An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.

  Michael Strong

  Business, Passion, Creating

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• My [story] outlines are usually about 5-6 pages long. I'm essentially telling myself the story in short form. I try to make it clear who the major characters are, what they want, and what obstacles they face.

  Chevy Stevens

  Character, Long, Trying

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• When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

  Luis Valdez

  Careers, Needs, Realizing

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.

  Chuck Ragan

  Song, Memories, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if an obstacle intervenes.

  Tito Colliander

  Self, Asceticism, Moments

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.5, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Literature

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• Being God is not all it's cracked up to be, and it's not as easy as one would think it would be. You'd think the deck would be really stacked in your favor as God, but of course, I've run into some pretty big obstacles and problems.

  Misha Collins

  Running, Thinking, Would Be

  "Misha Collins Interview SUPERNATURAL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

  Olivia Wilde

  Opportunity, Thinking, Opportunities To Learn

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Of course, in principle, they're against it. We are the ones that keep asking them what they think about it. I think their basic concern is a land-based missile defense of Taiwan hooked into the American communications and other systems, which in effect would make Taiwan then an outpost of the United States. That is a concern they frequently express. A missile defense shield of the United States, while they may not like it, it is not a big obstacle to our relationship.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Communication, Thinking, Land

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

  Paul Goodman

  Life And Love, Eye, Men

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• I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

  Chris Burke

  Giving Up, Wall, Eye

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• The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.

  Les Brown

  Life, Powerful, Real

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• A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

  Elizabeth George

  Godly, Average, Community

  Elizabeth George (2012). “A Woman's Daily Walk with God”, p.13, Harvest House Publishers

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• We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.

  Andrew Cohen

  Thinking, Literature, Narcissism

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• While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

  Bobby Scott

  Mean, College, Students

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• But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

  John Piper

  Christian, Jesus, Life Changing

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• Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

  James Caan

  Motivational, Opportunity, Succeed

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• Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.

  Scott Adams

  Spring, Cartoonist

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• We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Motivation, Powerful

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• Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.

  Steve Allen

  Running, Adversity, Long

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• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  Adam Johnson

  Jobs, Motivation, Character

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