Obstacle - Obstacles Quotes

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you’re not a […]

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.

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 […]

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.

There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or “in his habit as he lived.”

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

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