Obstacles Quotes - Page 34

• There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Leadership, Courage, Ambition

  Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

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• To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Education, Eye, Way

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

  James Surowiecki

  Simple, Ideas, Want

  "The Regulation Crisis". www.newyorker.com. June, 2010.

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• I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Jobs, Voice, Rivers

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• …life isn’t a puzzle to be solved. It’s an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb, not an obstacle to get in your way and stop you. Yeah, it’ll be hard, but once you reach the summit of it, you’ll be able to see the world for what it really is. And at the top, it never seems to have been as difficult a feat to climb there as you first made it out to be. Most of all, you’ll know that you beat that mountain, and that you rule it. It does not rule you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Adventure, Challenges, Mountain

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• There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

  Jules Verne

  Stronger, Impossible

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• You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

  Anne Lamott

  Should, Hurdle, Courses

  Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott (2012). “Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son”, p.91, Penguin

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• Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Sometimes, Reason

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.51, Scholastic UK

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• Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

  Richard Rohr

  Overcoming, Way

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• The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ocean, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

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• If you are positive, you'll see opportunities instead of obstacles.

  Widad Akrawi

  Positivity, Opportunity, Ifs

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• Perhaps the biggest obstacle to loving yourself and living your Spirit is the belief that you can only do so when all your problems are solved, all your worries are alleviated, and all your concerns and fears have disappeared. The truth is, this will never happen. We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and remember our Divine nature

  Sonia Choquette

  Love, Loving Yourself, Worry

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• Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free, when there were infinite possibilities of what you could feel, accomplish, and see in the world. Allow for the energy of your remembered freedom to thunder through you, and you will free your self from the false obstacles your adult.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 08, 2013

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• We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?

  Danah Zohar

  Running, Children, Cancer

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• Life . . . is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in death. Giving thanks in every circumstance, we forego the logic and reason which asks, "Why me?" and open our hearts and learn to trust. Every obstacle becomes an occasion for rejoicing. We put love at the center of our universe and we are lifted beyond the world of limitation, doubt, and fear into the realm of love, hope, and eternal happiness.

  Robert Scheid

  Life, Struggle, Learning

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Path, Faces, Drawbacks

  Tal Ben-Shahar (2009). “The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life”, p.22, McGraw Hill Professional

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• One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.

  Gene Veith

  Christian, Thinking, Church Growth

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• My life is like a song and I think I know the words,
  And as I start to sing along the whole verse becomes a blur.
  So I freestyle improv, make mistakes and evolve,
  The obstacles repeat, cause naturally it revolves.

  MURS

  Song, Mistake, Rap

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• International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

  George H. W. Bush

  Differences, Water, Presidential

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• Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

  Michael Dell

  Mistake, Littles, Acknowledge

  Michel Dell's commemencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 2003.

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• Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.

  Bartlett Sher

  Real, Believe, Views

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• Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ignorance, Thinking, Progress

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• I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Romance, Needs

  "Ang Lee Talks Brokeback Mountain". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 7, 2005.

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• We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fear, Practice, People

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.

  John Welwood

  Fear, Emotional, Clouds

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