Obstacles Quotes

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams

Order, Combat, Repose

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Shirley Chisholm

Black, Two, Path

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
Sally Ride

Time, Women, Society

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Power, Lost, Giving

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Best, Career, Down

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
Halle Berry

Yourself, Laugh, Find

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

Education, Eyes, Complete

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
Jeffrey Kluger

Experience, Accept, Whether

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher

Real, Overcome, Circles

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
Boris Kodjoe

Love, Hurt, Through

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.
Dan Savage

Gay, Nothing, Path

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
Isabel Allende

Interested, Overcome, Umbrella

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Bill Bradley

Great, Sports, Important

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.
Anna Sui

Woman, Become, Wanted

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
Wade Boggs

Life, Young, Kids

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.
Marlee Matlin

Money, Hard, Find

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
Harri Holkeri

Change, Try, Challenges

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
Henry Drummond

Life, Men, Yourself

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher

Real, Imaginary

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
Armstrong Williams

Education, Good, Children

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Dreams, Positive, Struggle

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
Chris Van Hollen

Education, Greatest, Poverty

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.
Gregory Peck

Character, Put, Situation

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.
Gustav Stresemann

Life, Victory, Against

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.
Bill Richardson

Family, Parents, Single

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
Vicente Fox

Job, Making, Themselves

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
Major Taylor

Life, Sympathy, Deep

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.
Goldie Hawn

Joy, Next, Stage

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
Bobby Scott

College, Means, While

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
Alastair Campbell

Truth, Eyes, Her

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