Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

I'm frightened a lot. I feel like it's caused me a lot of obstacles.

Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.

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.

The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

I am not a creature of giant business and I think that small- and medium-sized businesses will derive the most benefit from the removal of bureaucratic obstacles to trade.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

I've played basketball all of my life, and I've had things happen on the court that you eventually have to move on from. It's part of some of the obstacles that you meet in trying to reach your pinnacle.

We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively.

Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.