Obstacles Quotes - Page 35

• The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

  Franz Kafka

  Fire, Literature, Want

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

  Queen Latifah

  Inspirational, Fear, Past

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• We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

  Stacy London

  Self Esteem, Moving, Emotional

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style”, p.12, Penguin

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• A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Funny, Romantic, Thinking

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• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

  James Madison

  Men, Rights, Diversity

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

  Marilyn Manson

  Decided

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• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

  Don Marquis

  Race, Life Sucks, Progress

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• Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

  Jose Marti

  Insomnia, Ideas, Rolling

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

  Marlee Matlin

  Living My Life, Deafness, I Live My Life

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• What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

  Marlee Matlin

  Parent, Easy, Difficulty

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• Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Strong, Careers, Way

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

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• If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Squares, Circles, Careers

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

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• As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Christmas, Sky, Flew Up

  Clement Clarke Moore (1934). “The Night Before Christmas: (A Visit from St. Nicholas).”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

  Shemar Moore

  Careers, Overcoming, Brad

  "Shemar Moore talks Diary of a Mad Black Woman!". Interview With Brian B., movieweb.com. February 22, 2005.

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• Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

  Aimee Mullins

  Adversity, Order, Needs

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• Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Quality

  "Mixed Opinions and Maxims" by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, "The Danger in Admiration", 1879.

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• A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

  Chuck Norris

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Mma

  Chuck Norris (2014). “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories”, p.18, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Needs, Entering

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.38, Image

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  The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.

  Jack Paar

  Race, Long, Chiefs

  "I Kid You Not".

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• The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

  Dennis Prager

  Order, Becoming Better, People

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• Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

  Dennis Prager

  Fighting, Self, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 09, 2016

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• One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Successful, Thinking, Years

  "Readers recommend: songs about obstacles" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2015.

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• Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

  Jeremy Renner

  Successful, Architecture, Sometimes

  “Each Time Slightly Bigger, Slightly Braver” by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

  Bill Richardson

  Single Mom, Struggle, Opportunity

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