Barriers quotes:

Send

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. -- Rumi
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. -- Maya Angelou
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. -- John F. Kennedy
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. -- Ronald Reagan
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. -- Germaine Greer
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. -- Jose Marti
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. -- Fareed Zakaria
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. -- Julia Roberts
Love recognizes no barriers. -- Maya Angelou
There are no immovable barriers to education. -- Irina Bokova
At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers. -- Billy Graham
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' -- Helen Fisher
Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason. -- Melanie Benjamin
Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win. -- Hillary Clinton
A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build. -- Leon Brown
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. -- Kin Hubbard
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding. -- Dale Carnegie
As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction. -- Jim Ramstad
Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. -- Kieren Perkins
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. -- Noam Chomsky
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. -- Vernon Howard
Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises. -- David Harvey
The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube. -- Ben Huh
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. -- Josiah Royce
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities. -- Louise L. Hay
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities. -- Louise L. Hay
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. -- Jessamyn West
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. -- Paulo Coelho
When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust. -- Garrison Wynn
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. -- Gary Hamel
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem. -- Tim Cook
Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun! -- Jack Canfield
I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams. -- Marlee Matlin
Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it. -- Waylon Jennings
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. -- Emily Greene Balch
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. -- George Washington
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship. -- Harbhajan Singh
While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream. -- Adam Schiff
As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. -- Ram Dass
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. -- Roger Wicker
If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap. -- Martin Rees
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers. -- James Franco
This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought. -- Jean Dujardin
Preconceived ideas can sometimes become barriers. -- Rocky Bleier
He broke through the barriers of the skies. -- William Herschel
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper. -- John Lothrop Motley
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me. -- W. P. Kinsella
There are no language barriers when you are smiling. -- Allen Klein
Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it. -- George Sand
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. -- Robert Breault
We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls. -- Ted Cruz
Crossing barriers can be as simple as a smile. -- Ron Kaufman
God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers. -- Lesslie Newbigin
Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams. -- John Katzenbach
A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors. -- Blake Mycoskie
I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement. -- Isabelle Huppert
War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers. -- John F. Kennedy
That's the beautiful thing about food, it breaks down the barriers. -- Matt Preston
Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win. -- Andy Bechtolsheim
I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. -- Stefon Harris
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good. -- John Seagall
I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music. -- Mat McNerney
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble. -- Walter Darby Bannard
To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space. -- William Joyce
Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers -- Donald McGavran
I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself. -- Michael Reagan
We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest. -- Boris Johnson
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. -- Jasper Fforde
Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan. -- John M. Perkins
Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade. -- Terry Branstad
Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals. -- Rebecca Walker
There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation. -- C. K. Prahalad
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media. -- Issa Rae
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures. -- Tim Berners-Lee
When we love there are no barriers, no desires, no needs, no wants. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
I dream of a Digital India where access to Information knows no barriers. -- Narendra Modi
There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't. -- Lee Morgan
We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them -- Georges Simenon
Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore. -- Lasse Viren
My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground. -- Edward Brooke
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable -- Liz Phair
When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species. -- Wayne Pacelle
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers. -- Wyclef Jean
Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future. -- Al Siebert
I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers. -- Jackie Chan
Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive. -- Max Anders
With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers. -- Travis Pastrana
Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps. -- Arnold Kling
We're playing those mind games together, pushing the barriers, planting seeds, playing the mind guerilla. -- John Lennon
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. -- Neil Gaiman
I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers. -- Gianni Versace
Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so. -- Noam Chomsky
Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down. -- Morgan Freeman
Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women. -- Steve Martin
We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade. -- Hillary Clinton
Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion. -- Frederic Bastiat
I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me. -- Mikhail Tal
Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous. -- Henry Chester
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. -- John F. Kennedy
Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was. -- Judy Gold
This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality. -- SonReal
The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect. -- Howard Coble
To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now. -- Tim Tharp
to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space. -- William Joyce
The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects. -- Alistair Begg
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. -- Carl Sandburg
Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away. -- Gautama Buddha
I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers. -- Estelle
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers. -- Andy Grove
Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too. -- Prefuse 73
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster -- Mary Robinson

Send