Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.
When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.
It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
I think I've been very fortunate, considering the obstacles that I had to deal with, you know, just being - by virtue of being a brown, lovely, brown-skinned man. But on the other hand, I've been able to make a good living, and I've been able to take care of my family, which is most important to me.
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.
I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.
Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.