Top 131 Obstacle Quotes

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I really never saw an obstacle for me in taking leadership positions because, in a very ridiculous way, I thought, ‘If Mary Robinson can do it then why can’t I?’

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.

Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

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.

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

So I think we need to set up an ‘American Ninja Warrior’ obstacle course at the border and whoever can make it – you can’t fake it – they get through.

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

The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.

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

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.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It’s so sad. There’s another obstacle for him to clear.

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

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

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

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.

Sometimes experience is an obstacle because you cast your future based on your past experience.

I honestly don’t know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

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

The Internet removed geography as a significant obstacle that formerly prevented out-of-the-way places from being active players in the New Economy.

Usually, every match in the WWE, I was the one with the stupid ideas. I’m trying to figure out how to jump off the stage or turn the logo into a weapon or obstacle.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

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.

ISIS hates the West as an abominable nest of infidels – infidels who reject the Quran and Shariah Law and so must be annihilated. We are the obstacle to the new Caliphate.

I think obstacle courses in general are a blast, and I love the Green Beret one; I’ve done it – I don’t know – 20, 30, 40 times. I’m always trying to break my time from the last one or use a new technique to get through a certain obstacle.

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.

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.

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.

Once the censorship board clears a film, there should not be any other obstacle for a film’s theatrical run.

‘Upside Down’ is a fantasy love story. It’s about love at first sight – when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

My Dad doesn’t see limitations; he either sees hard workers or people who are lazy. As a result, despite any disability or obstacle, my siblings and I all lead relatively happy and successful lives. I believe a good deal of this is due to the fact that excuses were rarely tolerated.

Combating any kind of obstacle is much easier if you know that it’s real and not your fault, and it’s something you can fight against.

The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

The secret in life is to make every obstacle into an opportunity.

The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex.

In the NFL, you’re always facing an obstacle.

I won’t name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress.

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they’ve already done. It can be an obstacle; it’s a very fine line.

Every time I step into the ring there is a different obstacle but I’m very confident in myself and my ability.

There’s definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you’re so eclectic.

Bollywood has taught me a lot of lessons. Sometimes it has been very hard, but every struggle and obstacle that I overcame made me stronger and made me more aware.

Seriously, I don’t find not being able to hear an obstacle or a boundary. For me, and for many of us, it is an advantage, and it’s a part of my identity, in fact. It’s a huge part of who I am.

‘Wipeout’ is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!

I could go my whole life and say, ‘I’m not going to do anything with a love triangle,’ but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.

Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can’t be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively.

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

I got to work with Nia Jax when she just started, and that’s just a whole other obstacle: like, I’ve never been in the ring with someone like her before.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I’ve been oblivious.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

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

Art thrives on obstacles. The bigger the obstacle, the better the drama.

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it’s moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks’ efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

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

I find writing a book a slow, intricate process, a kind of obstacle course punctuated with great rewards. But research is always thrilling, and I tend to incorporate newfound material up to the very last minute.

I know there are a lot of kids who aren’t lucky enough to have a father figure in their lives. That’s a really tough obstacle to overcome.

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

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

The cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don’t fight each other.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as any man and have a career in it without being taken advantage of. So basically, those things came true. The obstacle course was just more difficult than we ever anticipated. We were optimistic and very naive.

Making a movie is like you’re behind the wheel, and you’re driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can’t brake.

Fear is your greatest obstacle – so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.

Things are not going to change until Indian women, and their parents, stop being afraid of what society will say. This is the single biggest obstacle. The fear of what people will say and how this will shame their parents means that women are paralysed.

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

The biggest obstacle when I was younger was geographical. I was living in Blackburn and the ITV and BBC studios were in London, and I thought: ‘How do I get there? I need to be there.’

But when you meet with the enemy and genuinely try to understand his or her perspective, you lose the enemy as a political tool. And that’s the eternal obstacle.

If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.

There are new challenges every day when starting a business and growing a brand, but I’m fortunate to have an amazing team that is always willing to work hard and navigate through whatever obstacle comes our way.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender – not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

I have to pick myself up every day and say, ‘The show must go on,’ meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.

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

I had to have 25 counts of radiation, and the radiation was an obstacle I had to get over, in and of itself. It took away my appetite completely, it changed my mood swings, it would make me feel nauseous all the time.

For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I’m gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.

The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.

Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.

The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you’ll only achieve small things.

I’m going to learn from every obstacle.

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

Any time there’s a wedge or a secret put between two people in a group, it’s an obstacle – but there’s also a chance to get over it and become closer.

The greatest obstacle in ‘Tetris’ is time and one’s own ability to navigate it – kind of like life itself.

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.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I’ve learned about happiness, the more I’ve come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

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.

I think everyone’s got an obstacle in their career that they have to challenge. I think, in a way, that pushes you to prove who you are.

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

I’ve had my ups. I’ve had my downs, but I’ve been able to push through every obstacle that’s been thrown my way.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome.

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

Turing was fearless. He’s extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.

The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into – at worst – an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success.

In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.

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.

It’s an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don’t have half the things you need. It’s like everything is wrinkled in your life.

It’s never about the chemo; it’s never about the cancer. It’s all about what you’re willing to put in to overcome whatever the obstacle is.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

Overcome obstacles one at a time: Sometimes the end goal becomes too daunting, so take things one step at a time and overcome each obstacle as you get to it.

I have always wanted to be the best, and it drives me every day, no matter the obstacle.

I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we’re the ones who just like having them in the room.

The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab – windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts – and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.

I really believe in fate and that everything happens for a reason. There’s always a plan. Even things that happen to you that feel like an obstacle or a disaster in the moment will pave the way for your next step.

I’m looking for someone who can be put to the test… and by test, I mean an obstacle course that represents life and its challenges!

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

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.

Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question – ‘Now what?’ Often this question is followed by a – deer in the headlights – response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor’s ability to earn a living.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain’s cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening – not to say healthy – old age.

The original ‘Hobbit’ was never intended to have a sequel – Bilbo ‘remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long’: a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

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

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.

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

I’ve got a lot of balance beams, which has been fun walking down these beams, and I’ve made an obstacle course and doing whatever I can to be as healthy and strong in those areas that have been my weakness.

I can’t understand people missing a show because they’re sick: They’ve missed their best performance. You have an obstacle to overcome, and you reach for the heavens, and, doggone it, the heavens answer you.

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.

Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.