For a long time society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other it seems to me in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband that they belong to each other in the name of Nature and are lovers by Divine right in spite of human convention or the laws.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

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.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice my own previously expressed views and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

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.