Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Obstacle Quotes

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. 
Simone de Beauvoir 

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. 
Niccolo Machiavelli 

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. 
Mahatma Gandhi 

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. 
Thomas Carlyle 

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. 
Thomas Carlyle 

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. 
Thomas Carlyle 

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. 
Daniel J. Boorstin 

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. 
Aldous Huxley 

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame. 
Bo Bennett 

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. 
Woodrow Wilson 

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. 
Sigmund Freud 

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

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic. 
Fred Durst 

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 

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 

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. 
Moliere 

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. 
Christopher Lasch 

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. 
Stanislav Grof 

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. 
Nathaniel Hawthorne


The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. 
Don Marquis 

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting. 
Elisabeth Rohm 

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing. 
Robert Falcon Scott 

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure. 
Barbara Jordan 

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. 
Scott Adams 

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families. 
Kendrick Meek 

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. 
Robert Benchley 

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race. 
Jose Bergamin 

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself. 
Ryszard Kapuscinski 

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

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. 
Christopher Dawson 

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other. 
Jacques Yves Cousteau 

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. 
Bernadette Devlin 

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 

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it. 
Theodor Herzl 

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. 
Brad Henry 

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. 
Robert Bork 

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy. 
James Van Der Beek 

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. 
Daniel Yergin 

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. 
John Acton


If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. 
Kathryn Bigelow 

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management. 
Frank Carlucci 

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it. 
Bernard Cornwell 

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. 
John Desmond Bernal 

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society. 
Vito Fossella 

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself. 
Steve Earle 

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. 
Joseph A. Schumpeter 

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master. 
Joy Page 

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available. 
Roy Romer 

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle. 
Jack Paar 

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. 
Eric Butterworth 

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity. 
Elfriede Jelinek 

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other. 
John Carmack 

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility. 
Lawrence Hargrave 

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. 
Diane Ravitch 

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle. 
Markus Wolf 

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious. 
Carole King 

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. 
Ellen Terry 

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is. 
Wally Amos 

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. 
Henry Morton Stanley


Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. 
Andrew Bernstein 

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness. 
Bruno Bauer 

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 

Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. 
Tojo Hideki

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