Quotes of Obstruction - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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

“ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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

“ To fly we have to have resistance. ”

- Maya Lin

“ 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

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

- Unknown

“ 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

“ You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness. ”

- Susan Lucci

“ If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees. ”

- John Cornyn

“ 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

“ The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty. ”

- Charles Sanders Peirce

“ 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

“ 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

“ All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. ”

- Thomas J. Watson

“ Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ”

- Rumi

“ The Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will be good for all students. There will be no more obstacles, no more checkpoints. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. ”

- Thomas Aquinas

“ I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. ”

- Michael Ondaatje

“ Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things blocking and tackling. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ There seemed to be endless obstacles — it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. ”

- Joanna Field

“ The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin
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