120 Breaking Barrier Quotes

Following is our list of breaking barrier quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about breaking down barriers.

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Famous Breaking Barrier Quotes

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. — Twiggy

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief. — Rodney Mullen

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem. — Tim Cook

There are no roadblocks, only springboards. — Brent Smith

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind. — Helen Clark

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking. — Thomas Kuhn

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in. - Sam Shepard

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in. — Sam Shepard

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us. — Amy Purdy

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch

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

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. — Jürgen Moltmann

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning. — Unknown

There will be roadblocks but we will overcome them. - DJ Khaled

There will be roadblocks but we will overcome them. — DJ Khaled

Short Breaking Barrier Quotes

  • You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge. — Randy Gage
  • There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle. — Oscar Micheaux
  • I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. — Gustav Mahler
  • Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down. — George H. W. Bush
  • Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle. — Mary Lou Retton
  • Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want — Randy Pausch
  • Walls turned sideways are bridges. — Angela Davis
  • Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • The only way around is through. — Robert Frost
  • The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it. — Chuck Missler

Breaking Barrier Image Quotes

Breaking barrier quote Sometimes, a break from your routine is the very thing you need.
Sometimes, a break from your routine is the very thing you need.

Term Break Quotes

Long term, people who understand the underlying product and how to build it and can sell it, these are catnip to investors, these people can break down walls if they have enough energy, and they can get almost anything done. — Naval Ravikant

I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public. — Gemma Ward

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything. — Dave Foley

Breaking barrier quote It's okay to be a glowstick. Sometimes we have to break before we shine.
It's okay to be a glowstick. Sometimes we have to break before we shine.

Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable! — Sathya Sai Baba

The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management. — Ted Nelson

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. — Tony Robbins

Breaking barrier quote People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you
People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books. — David Icke

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. — Lindsey Buckingham

The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff. — Sally Schneider

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg". — Gabriel Byrne

Breaking Down Barriers Quotes

Lectins bind to receptors on the surface of each cell lining the gut, breaking down the tight junctions that normally make an impenetrable barrier between the intestinal contents including bacteria and ourselves. — Steven Gundry

The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that. — Oscar Peterson

I support the world and love everybody. It's about spreading love and breaking down barriers, not building up hate. — Lil B

Breaking barrier quote It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe. — W. Averell Harriman

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment. — Lisi Harrison

Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink? — Mikhail Gorbachev

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground. — Edward Brooke

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry. — Loretta Sanchez

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. — Nelson Mandela

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers. — Nat King Cole

Love Barrier Quotes

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

Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles. — Abdu'l-Bahá

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

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. — Maya Angelou

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall. — Ram Dass

And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us. — Charles Colson

We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force. — Betty Williams

Cultural Barriers Quotes

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages. — A. R. Rahman

Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds. — Balaji Srinivasan

It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. — James David Vance

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. — Douglas Adams

At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers. — Billy Graham

Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being. — Andrei Tarkovsky

The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity. — Daisaku Ikeda

The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within. — Carson Grant

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. — Barbara Ehrenreich

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation. — Carl Lewis

Barrier Quotes

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

Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a beautiful context for life's drama. — Frank Gehry

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most. — Chuck Yeager

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. — Randy Pausch

Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias. — Pauli Murray

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. — M Scott Peck

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

To the north, above the Great Lakes, lies the Canadian Shield, the world’s largest area of Precambrian Rock, much of which forms a barrier to human settlement. — Tim Marshall

This is the public health crisis of the century, and doctors should not have barriers. — Peter A. McCullough

Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it. — Robert Plant

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More Breaking Barrier Quotes

People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality. — Nhat Hanh

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. — Anais Nin

As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. #‎ PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence. — Rosario Dawson

The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space. — Mario Vargas Llosa

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. — Amy Goodman

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. — Michael Crichton

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

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. — Georg Simmel

What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison. — Maria Edgeworth

Nothing breaks down barriers and preconceived ideas about 'Christians and Christianity' more than when we treat people the way Jesus treated His enemies. — Chip Ingram

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down. — Eleanor Clift

When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors. — Lao Tzu

The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects. — Alistair Begg

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. — Joichi Ito

It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs. — Hillary Clinton

Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain. — Roger Bannister

I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers. — Prince Royce

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process. — Diana Nyad

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers. — Laura Nyro

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier. — 50 Cent

If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex. — Charles Caleb Colton

When love is our guiding light, we can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world. Gaining the courage and confidence to stand up for what you believe in is not always easy, but it's fully within your reach. — Marianne Williamson

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music. — Tony Levin

I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers. — Alexander McQueen

By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind. — Walter Russell

A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down. — Ernst Mayr

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