Obstacles Quotes - Page 15

• When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Fighting, Fate

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• I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Giving, Way, Objectives

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• Love that shines from within cannot be darkened by obstacles of the world of consequences!

  Pythagoras

  Shining, World, Consequence

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• Don't let any obstacle stop you. Always remember that you have spiritual and mental qualities within you that can overcome even the seemingly impossible.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Spiritual, Quality, Overcoming

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• No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.

  John Muir

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Opportunity, Creative, Arise

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How many happened to you alone? I bet there are very few. When you understand that being connected to others is one of life's greatest joys, you realize that life's best comes when you initiate and invest in solid relationships.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Thinking, Greatest Victory

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• Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Enlightenment, Overcoming

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• When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Endless, Dharma

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• I look at obstacles as opportunities.

  Jon Jones

  Opportunity, Ufc, Mma

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• To keep on battling and overcome the obstacles is what makes a true fighter.

  Mauricio Rua

  Mma, Overcoming, Fighter

  "'Shogun' says he'll keep on fighting, may drop to 185lbs". www.mirror.co.uk. November 13, 2014.

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• In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

  Anthony Daniels

  Views, Overcoming, Problem

  "All Sex, All the Time". www.city-journal.org. Summer 2000.

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• The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.

  Benjamin Graham

  Horse, Real, Lying

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• It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.

  Maya Forbes

  Moving, Want, Way

  "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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• Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Perseverance, Character, Mean

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.186

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• Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Believe, Energy

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• The very aim of meditation is firstly subjugation of the mind, so that it can no longer be an obstacle to a clear vision of the Supreme cliché. Secondly, it is the full silencing of that mind, so that consciousness becomes similar to the mirror-like surface of a quiet lake or pool. I can see the real Reflection of Truth in it then, but not otherwise.

  Mouni Sadhu

  Real, Reflection, Lakes

  Mouni Sadhu (2005). “Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study”, p.196, Karnac Books

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• The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with and to work within the tenets of orthodox theory.

  Paul Ormerod

  Advancement, Academic, Theory

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

  Joel Bakan

  Corporations, Way, Psychopath

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

  Alan Arkin

  Years, Judging, Acting

  Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.51, Da Capo Press

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• Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.

  Alan Moore

  War, Doors, Differences

  "Correspondence: From Hell". Alan Moore and Dave Sim, "Cerebus" #220 (comic book series by Dave Sim), July 1, 1997.

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• The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Mean, Overcoming, Building

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.

  Max Horkheimer

  Philosophical, Democracies Have, Opposites

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.19, A&C Black

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• I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter,' and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

  Holt McCallany

  Long, Unqualified, Hats

  "Holt McCallany and Executive Producer/Showrunner Warren Leight Interview LIGHTS OUT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• There is not one obstacle standing in the way of your success anymore.

  Jon Taffer

  Way, Standing

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