Obstacle Quotes

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.