Obstacle Quotes

The family is inherently an obstacle to schemes for central control of social processes. Therefore the anointed necessarily find themselves repeatedly on a collision course with the family. It is not a matter of any subjective animus on their part against families. The anointed may in fact be willing to shower government largess upon families, as they do on other social entities. But the preservation of the family as an autonomous decision-making unit is incompatible with the third-party decision making that is at the heart of the vision of the anointed.

Failure is something which everybody has to face. It is part of life.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.

Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

Any fortress can be stormed provided there is a way up for a donkey with a load of gold on his back.

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

Time is my greatest enemy.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Throughout Pixar's history, we've had major meltdowns and crises. It's happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn't work, and you start all over again.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

When you think you're going through hell, keep going. The only way out, keep going. If you're going through hell you've got to keep going. You can't stop or that's where you're gonna end up.