Obstacles Quotes - Page 26

• If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  Henry Ford

  Blessed, Eye, Goal

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• The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Attitude, Decent

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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• You are to set your own value, communicate that value to the world, and then not settle for less. Sound daunting? That's just because it takes you out of your comfort zone. You have got to stop being an obstacle on your own path to wealth and security and happiness. You must understand that valuing yourself is well within your control.

  Suze Orman

  Sound, Comfort, World

  Suze Orman (2007). “Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny”, p.44, Spiegel & Grau

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• It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dexterity, Accomplished, Aim

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.

  Pope Paul VI

  Doubt, Serious, Pope

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• I mean, 3-D adds a whole level of 'oh my goodness' to the movie in good ways and bad ways that you have to deal with. We've overcome any obstacle that we've ever had because we have a great 3-D crew, Max and the guys at Paradise 3-D.

  Todd Farmer

  Mean, Guy, Overcoming

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not like we were forced to do something we didn't want to do. I mean, when you see that scene you'll realize that we're really lucky that the weather came at us because now it has a lot more meaning that wasn't automatically there. There's some sort of undertones that wouldn't have existed had we shot it outside. So we got lucky on that and what we try to do is take whatever obstacles come our way and make them work in our favor.

  Todd Farmer

  Mean, Weather, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• It really has been a blessing because you can go and look at our other movies we've done in a studio system. We didn't get to make the movie that we wanted to make. We made the movie that someone else wanted us to make. That can be a little disheartening, a lot disheartening. While there have been struggles, it doesn't matter which table you're at because you're going to have obstacles, but I kind of like being able to make the movie that you want to make.

  Todd Farmer

  Struggle, Blessing, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Race, Goal

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• Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Tree, After Hours

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• Life is an obstacle and forest, when you have accomplished it all, you get a reward. The reward is Heaven.

  Dean F. Bryson

  Heaven, Rewards, Forests

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• There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Special, Progress, Tools

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• When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained destiny out there among the stars, all that means is that they have a single story wedged into their imagination so tightly that mere reality can't shake it loose.

  John Michael Greer

  Stars, Mean, Reality

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• Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.

  Eleanor Brown

  Journey, Faces, Bigger

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• Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

  Albert Bandura

  Reality, People, Overcoming

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• This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.

  Immanuel Kant

  Struggle, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (1983). “Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals”, p.45, Hackett Publishing

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• Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.

  David O. Russell

  Names, Joy, Doe

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• One of the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life was not understanding how to draw healthy boundaries. I finally learned it's perfectly OK to say no.

  Maria Canals Barrera

  Understanding, Healthy, Overcoming

  "Maria Canals-Barrera: The consequence of avoiding our issues and being a fume head". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Revolution, Succes

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles.

  Stephen Curry

  Conquer, Hurdle, Basketball Success

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• Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.

  Simon Sinek

  Focus, Looks, Pessimist

  Twitter post from May 06, 2010

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• The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

  Walter Wink

  Belief, Excuse, Dependent

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• From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.

  Napoleon Hill

  Fashion, Opportunity, Men

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• Practice with the obstacle, always with the obstacle, and seek combinations.

  Sebastien Foucan

  Practice, Combination

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• It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

  Henri Bergson

  Emotion, Spite

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