Obstacles Quotes - Page 32

• Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

  Franz Kafka

  Waste

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• To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Attitude, Envy

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• Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

  Robert Breault

  Overcoming, No Excuses, Used

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• My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Meaningful, Freedom, Self

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Matter, Poverty, Wealth

  Saint John Chrysostom, Paul William Harkins (1963). “Baptismal Instructions”, p.184, Paulist Press

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• The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work.

  Jack Heffron

  Hard Work, Validation, Ideas

  Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.13, Writer's Digest Books

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• Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Fate, Detours

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• Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.

  Ali Vincent

  Accomplishment, Faces, Reason Why

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.154, Rodale

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• When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

  Brian Tracy

  Want Something, Overcoming, Way

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.46, Jaico Publishing House

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• When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ocean, Moving, Sunset

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• Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something.

  Tim Tebow

  Adversity, People, Not Good Enough

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• May God remind us daily-no matter what kind of obstacles we face-that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him.

  Beth Moore

  Voice, May, Matter

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• Sometimes you need to be terrified to your bones, in order for you to find your way to safety. Pain somewhat has this ability to push you beyond your comfort zone so that you can come back even stronger. To me, obstacles are not a hindrance but as stepping stones to success.

  Rita Zahara

  Pain, Order, Safety

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• Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

  Jon Stewart

  Good Night, Good Luck, Pieces

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• When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak. And being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are.

  Bob Harper

  Mean, Gay, Years

  "'Biggest Loser' trainer Bob Harper reveals he's gay" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. November 27, 2013.

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• 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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• Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

  Mike Tyson

  Crush, Fire, Rolling

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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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• We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Positive Thinking, Firsts

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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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• Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Order, People, Overcoming

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• Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Important, Overcoming, Essentials

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• The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

  Michael Meade

  Block, Real, Life Changing

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• The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men.
  In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man.

  Norman Angell

  Hate, Heart, Men

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.

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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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