Obstacle - Obstacles Quotes

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

Whatever impedes you but doesn’t stop you aids your progress.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

If you wish to obtain an orthodox understanding of Zen, do not be deceived by others. Inwardly or outwardly, if you encounter any obstacles kill them right away. If you encounter the Buddha, kill him.

One of the greatest obstacles to success is man’s inability to put first things first.

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

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

To get up in the morning only to know that you will have to face another obstacle takes strength. To smile when the only thing you can do is cry takes bravery. To act happy and laugh when you know that times are at their worst takes courage. To be joyous when the only good […]

There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow any one to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and concealment of our own ignorance with a show of seeming wisdom.