Best Hindrance Quotes
132 Hindrance quotes by 119 unique authors
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in…
— Pope John Paul II
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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the…
— William Hazlitt
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A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead…
— Ivor Gurney
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Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.
— Isamu Noguchi
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I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper.…
— Helen Keller
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I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
— Martin Yan
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By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
— Phillip Moffitt
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
— Plato
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings…
— Plato
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Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it…
— Teresa of Avila
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The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing…
— Wayne Muller
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There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its…
— Peter Kropotkin
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The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.
— John Mott
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Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.
— Robert Greene
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Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
— Dogen
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It can be a bit of a hindrance when you walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal and one or two launch into 'psycho,…
— Stuart Pearce
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what…
— Paul Simon
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When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such…
— Huineng
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Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ, we…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough…
— Paul Butterfield
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Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of…
— Bokar Rinpoche
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