Top 164 Hindrance Quotes & Sayings

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one's goals.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.

Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

As an ambassador for the aid agency Cafod and the Anthony Nolan Trust, I need to be sure that my public support for those charities is a help for their work, not a hindrance.

The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.

Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

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 that I can do different things and be accepted.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

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 people expect you to do.

R2-D2 is like that, but I think because he doesn't speak actual words, his jokes don't land. It's really a hindrance. And the same with BB-8. But Artoo is a lot stronger.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

Why fear ye that the Lord Jesus Christ will not accept of you? Your sins will be no hindrance, your unworthiness no hindrance; if your own corrupt hearts do not keep you back, nothing will hinder Christ from receiving of you.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

I'm determined to not let my skin colour or the fact that I come from Africa be a hindrance.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Moreover, I am confident when I act without make-up; I feel free, as there is no hindrance.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

For the rich and powerful, pregnancy might not be an obstacle - it might even help one's career. But for the rest of us, it remains a hindrance.

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.

Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.

I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other's work instead of being a hindrance.

No practice can take you to liberation. That is important to know. It can be a little step that is useful until you realize you don't need it anymore, because after a certain point it becomes a hindrance.

I'm very technical in everything I do. But one thing I don't do is set goals. Goals are actually a hindrance to me, because they limit you.

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

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, psycho'!