Quotes of Impediment - somelinesforyou

“ Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through. ”

- F. W. Nichol

“ Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

“ The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

“ Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. ”

- Helen Keller

“ 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. ”

- Booker T. Washington

“ The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block. ”

- Inigo De Leon

“ Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. ”

- Booker T. Washington

“ A successful woman preacher was once asked 'what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?' 'Not one,' she answered, 'except the lack of a minister's wife.'. ”

- Anna Garlin Spencer

“ The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness. ”

- Paul Twitchell

“ It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ”

- Bible

“ When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself. ”

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

“ Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ”

- Albert J. Nock

“ Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. ”

- Thomas Reid

“ I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump. It is that we have put up no obstacles at all. The great strength is in you. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before the. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it. But if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary. ”

- Isobel Kuhn

“ Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows. ”

- Albert Camus

“ I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism. ”

- Oprah Winfrey
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