Barriers Quotes

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

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• There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Mind, Progress

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

  John F. Kennedy

  Workout, Peace, War

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nature, Powerful, Principles

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• There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

  Jessamyn West

  Communication, Ignorance, Two

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

  Kieren Perkins

  Swimming, People, Overcoming

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• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspirational, Success, Stay Strong

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  Randy Pausch

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Brian Tracy, Azim Jamal (2016). “What You Seek Is Seeking You”, p.139, Jaico Publishing House

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• The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

  Vernon Howard

  Courage, Thinking, Negativity

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• Love recognizes no barriers.

  Maya Angelou

  Love

  "6 Maya Angelou Quotes About Love to Incorporate Into Your Wedding" by Kim Fusaro, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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  The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Halloween, Scary

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.11, Ageless Reads

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  If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Confidence, Stay Strong

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 08, 2010

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• There are no immovable barriers to education.

  Irina Bokova

  Education

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• Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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• The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girly, Morning, Motivation

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• I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

  Julia Roberts

  Love, Boyfriend, Believe

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

  Josiah Royce

  Lonely, Home, Heart

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.353, Courier Dover Publications

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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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• In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Freedom, Writing, America

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.110, Penguin

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• Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

  Germaine Greer

  Spiritual, Pain, Athlete

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