Obstacle Quotes

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. View quote
James Madison
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. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. View quote
Molière
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. View quote
Franz Kafka
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure. View quote
Barbara Jordan
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. View quote
Cicero
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. View quote
Don Marquis
[C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power. (John Ralston Saul)
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. View quote
Christopher Dawson
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. View quote
Brad Henry
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. View quote
Robert Benchley
Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one. View quote
Chuck Norris
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. (Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle)
Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich. View quote
Nhat Hanh
I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there. View quote
Georges Bernanos
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this - that men despair and think things impossible. View quote
Francis Bacon
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged. View quote
John Muir