Words matter. These are the best Obstacle Quotes from famous people such as Mark Batterson, Eckhart Tolle, Sinead Burke, Elisabeth Rohm, Monte Irvin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
