Biggest Obstacles Quotes

Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life's challenges is actually our own fear of failure. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it. ~ Mark Z. Jacobson

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness. ~ Bruno Bauer

For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle. ~ Edgar Cayce

Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles. ~ Stephen Curry

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already. ~ Timothy Keller

It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight ... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session. ~ Ann Shulgin

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other. ~ Runoko Rashidi

One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years. ~ Bonnie Raitt

One of the biggest obstacles to high performance in organizations comes from unclear expectations and accountability. ~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories. ~ Michael Strong

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself. ~ Steve Earle

At the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who don't share the gospel. ~ Albert Mohler

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it. ~ Mike Epps

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ~ Robert Benchley

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing. ~ LeBron James

The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things. ~ T. Harv Eker

To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. ~ Shane Claiborne

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. ~ Dennis Prager

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other. ~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Biggest obstacle to learning is thinking you already know. ~ Mike Erre

Everything, every cell, every atom in the existence can be a doorway to the beyond if you go steadily at it. But the problem is, people keep shifting and shifting and shifting. That is the biggest problem with today's world, like never before. People think it is a virtue for them to say, "Our attention spans are very short." If you keep shifting, nothing happens. Which way you want to go, I am not deciding that – go wherever you want to go, but steadily. Not every day altering it, altering it, altering it. ~ Sadhguru

The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place. ~ Mandy Patinkin

Dedication and time management are two of the biggest things. I hate being late for anything. If anything, I prefer to be ten minutes early rather than thirty seconds late. I'm also very dedicated and I want to do my best in everything I do. I believe swimming has helped transfer that into my life as well. ~ Liam Tancock

I am not afraid of you. I do not fear you; you do not scare me. You are a big bully who is afraid, and scared of yourself! ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable. ~ Lewis Black

I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time. ~ Dakota Johnson

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even? ~ William, Saroyan

One of the biggest misconceptions remains that Neil Gaiman spent his youth lurching from bedsit to library and back again, subsisting on a diet of blood-temperature baked beans and the wild leeks he managed to pull from the side of a disused railway track. It is a misconception that he nurtures, whether consciously or otherwise, through omission. ~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I was a huge 'Deadwood' fan because I'm a huge David Milch fan, so I've always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on 'Deadwood' and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever. ~ Emily Rose

Payton "Sin" Sinclair was an unapologetic people-watcher. As a sports consultant, working with some of the biggest and most recognizable athletes in sports and business, he had to be able to read the smallest nuances of others. That ability was just one of the unique attributes that set him apart from the competition and made him the go-to person when corporations wanted to align themselves with the top professional athletes in the country. ~ Francis Ray

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty). ~ Warren Farrell

My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer. ~ Francis Chan

One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too. ~ Daniel Cormier

Learn what not to expect. Irish catholic they get sh**** little rings. Irish women get crappy rings. Baptist get the worst because they get the rings under water. When it comes up, it's garbage. Jewish, big rings. Episcopalian big rings. Italians-the best, because they get them off of dead people, and second wives get the biggest rings of all. ~ Joan Rivers

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks. ~ Wentworth Miller

There's no way to be sure," Irene said. "The biggest threat is giving up hope. If he decides there's no chance to survive, he'll stop trying. ~ Andy Weir

The biggest difference between boy and girls is how people treat them ~ I. W. Gregorio

Reality has a way of bursting the bubble of illusion, and an affair is one of the biggest illusions that anyone can experience in life. It's based almost entirely on emotions with almost no logic to support it.

That fact becomes clear when children, employers, clergy, family, and friends all hear about the affair. Because they are not in the fog, they see the affair for what it really is: the cruelest, most devastating, and selfish act anyone can ever inflict on a spouse. With so many people seeing the situation logically and not emotionally, the unfaithful spouse has an opportunity to be advised and influenced by these people. Furthermore, the betrayed spouse gains support when he or she needs it the most. ~ Willard F. Harley Jr.

It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution. ~ Dannion Brinkley

Close your eyes and you will see your dreams, open them and you will see obstacles. ~ Gavriil Stiharul

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice. ~ David David Katzman

Every great achiever overcame the greatest obstacles. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are as you are until you're not. You change when you want to change. You put your ideas into action in the timing that is best. That's just how it happens.

And what I think we all need more than anything is this: permission to be wherever the fuck we are when we're there.


You're not a robot. You can't just conjure up motivation when you don't have it. Sometimes you're going through something. Sometimes life has happened. Life! Remember life? Yeah, it teaches you things and sometimes makes you go the long way around for your biggest lessons.

You don't get to control everything. You can wake up at 5 a.m. every day until you're tired and broken, but if the words or the painting or the ideas don't want to come to fruition, they won't. You can show up every day to your best intentions, but if it's not the time, it's just not the fucking time. You need to give yourself permission to be a human being. ~ Jamie Varon

The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them. ~ James Richardson

You get into the biggest fights with the people you care about the most, because they are the relationships you're willing to fight for. ~ Wiz Khalifa

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean. ~ Laird Hamilton

The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. ~ Avro Manhattan

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually. ~ Ayelet Waldman

Are you a risk? Usually when you leave me, you just take my heart. That's the biggest risk of all, I'd say. ~ Meredith Wild

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

There are several explanations offered as to why women have lower aspirations than men, including that women feel there is a lack of fit between themselves (their personal characteristics) and senior leadership positions, which are often characterized in highly masculine terms; women feel there are too many obstacles to overcome; women do not want to prioritize career over family; women place less important than do men on job characteristics common to senior roles, such as high pay, power, and prestige; gender role socialization influences girls' and women's attitudes and choices about occupational achievement; and women are more often located in jobs that lack opportunities for advancement and they lower their aspirations in response to this disadvantageous structural position. (p.191) ~ Sheryl Sandberg

You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all. ~ Oprah Winfrey

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis. ~ Susan George

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on. ~ Andie MacDowell