And like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we’d never know its speed, its power. It is only when we come up against an obstruction that we can see people’s strength.
Obstacle - Obstacles Quotes
Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusively viewed from the side of the obstacle, nature appears inimical to the idea of morality. But if that were absolutely true, moral life could never come to exists. Life, moral or physical, is not […]
Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang froid immovably, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligent quotient.
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You take away all obstacles and without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die. (Captain James T. Kirk, “Metamorphosis”)
