Obstacles Quotes - Page 12

• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

  PJ Harvey

  Lucky, Way, Found

  "Shy girl or she-wolf? Will the real Polly Harvey please stand up". Interview With Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

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• With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

  Octavio Paz

  Wall, Rocks, Air

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• Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.

  Bernard Brodie

  Men, Animal, Drug

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• [On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Sex, Freedom, Men

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• It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Growth, Bumps, Way

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• Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

  Monte Irvin

  Heart, Winning, Overcoming

  "Monte Irvin: Nice Guys Finish First". Book by Monte Irvin, www.washingtonpost.com. 1996.

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• It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, May

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Overcoming, Path

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• These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Doubt, Trying, Quiet

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• Biggest obstacle to learning is thinking you already know.

  Mike Erre

  Thinking, Knows, Biggest Obstacles

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• Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Waiting, Chance, Expecting

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• "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

  Patrick Ness

  Army, Thinking, People

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• It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Grace, Challenges, And Love

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• The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Wall, Reality, Light

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• I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Character, Thinking, Comedy

  "'The Big Bang Theory': Kunal Nayyar Talks Raj's New Confidence" by Lesley Goldber, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "'Glee' Star to Write a Book" by Antoinette Bueno, www.etonline.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.

  Howard E. Wasdin

  Growing Up, Real, Kids

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• Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

  Nik Wallenda

  Negative, Way, Walks

  "Niagara Falls Tightrope Walker Garners U.S. Support". www.foxnews.com. August 03, 2011.

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• Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Children, Lying

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• If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Godly, Heaven

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• 

  I refuse to believe today will be just another day in my life.
  All that I am.
  All that I will become will be written through my thoughts and my actions.
  I've conditioned my mind.
  Trained my body.
  Sacrificed my soul.
  There will be obstacles.
  Doubters.
  Mistakes.
  But nothing comes to those who wait.
  Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

  Kai Greene

  Giving Up, Mistake, Believe

  FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Nov 06, 2016

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• Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.

  Harold Speed

  Artist, Path, Firsts

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• If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Men, Numbers

  Alexis de Tocqueville, John Canfield Spencer (1854). “American Institutions and Their Influence”, p.260

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• Success is overcoming obstacles on the way to your dreams.

  Karl Mecklenburg

  Dream, Overcoming, Way

  Karl Mecklenburg (2009). “Heart of a Student Athlete: All-Pro Advice for Competitors and Their Families”, p.41, Greenleaf Book Group

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