Definition of Obstacle

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Definition of Obstacle
	Obstacle That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral. Related Definitions: An, Anything, Hindrance, In, Moral, Obstruction, Or, Physical, Progress, That, The, Way, Which

Obstacle Quotations

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mohandas Gandhi

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud

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

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
James Madison

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Chuck Norris

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.
Aldous Huxley

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Franz Kafka

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Woodrow Wilson

Obstacle Translations

obstacle in Dutch is hinderpaal, beletsel, hindernis
obstacle in German is Hindernis
obstacle in Italian is ostacolo
obstacle in Latin is impedimentum
obstacle in Swedish is hinder

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