Top 141 Impediment Quotes & Sayings

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I did have a speech impediment.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working abroad, and no-one mentioned it. I came back to England and suddenly realised I had a speech impediment.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

I am of the firm view that there is no impediment to me competing in athletics competitions.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

If we don't do a better job of getting illegal worker immigration policies in place, it's going to be a significant impediment to a number of industries.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.

Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

My speech impediment wasn't a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most specifically the 'r' sound.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

I've got a speech impediment.

Self-love knows no impediment.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

One thing that does seem to particularly annoy people is my voice and my very slight, to me unnoticeable, speech impediment.

Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.

The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical.

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.