Overcoming famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.
-- A. B. Simpson -
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
-- A. C. Benson -
In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
-- Adam Braun -
You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
-- Aeschines -
I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The loser is usually the one who is ready to lose. Fight, overcome difficulties, control your emotions – and you will win.
-- Aleksandr Karelin -
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
-- Alfred Adler -
It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.
-- Alistair Begg -
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.
-- Ambrose -
A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes
-- Anderson Silva -
At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?
-- André Aciman -
I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.
-- Andre Agassi -
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
-- Andre Gide -
There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.
-- Andre Norton -
I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect,
-- Andres Iniesta -
My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.
-- Andrew Johnson -
Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
-- Anne Bancroft -
The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.
-- Anne Bancroft -
What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
-- Anne Revere -
This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.
-- Anne Rice -
I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.
-- Anneli Rufus -
What you can become depends upon what you can overcome.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
-- Anthony Daniels -
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.
-- Anton Myrer -
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.
-- Anton Webern -
Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
-- Arsenius the Great -
I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.
-- Arthur Blank -
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
-- Arthur Helps -
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.
-- Auberon Waugh -
This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.
-- Baba Amte -
People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they're going to want to do business with you. And if they don't you're going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
-- Barry Bonds -
You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
-- Barry Mann -
Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.
-- Bart Starr -
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
-- Ben Stiller -
I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
-- Ben Whishaw -
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
-- Bernard Baruch -
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
-- Bertha Knight Landes -
I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
-- Beth Ditto -
It was what God had taught me growing up that helped me overcome my fear and get back on the board. 'Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go' (Joshua 1:9).
-- Bethany Hamilton -
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
-- Beverley Nichols -
Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement
-- Bill Kirby -
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.
-- Bill McKibben -
I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.
-- Bill Walsh -
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
-- Billy Graham -
So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
-- Bo Derek -
Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome.
-- Bob Sorge -
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
-- Bono -
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
-- Booker T. Washington -
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
-- Boris Yeltsin -
But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.
-- Brad Carson -
It’s not the struggles that define you; it’s how you overcome them.
-- Brandi Glanville -
I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits
-- Brené Brown -
Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal
-- Brian Tracy -
A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.
-- Brian Tracy -
When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.
-- Brian Tracy -
To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.
-- Brian Tracy -
What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.
-- Brian Weiss -
We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.
-- Brigham Young -
Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit.
-- Buddy Ebsen -
To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose,
-- C. Wright Mills -
The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.
-- Callie Khouri -
Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist.
-- Cameron Dokey -
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.
-- Carl Sagan -
We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in others.
-- Carlo Borromeo -
Only when we fix our gaze on the heavenly things do we begin to understand the eternities. Only with the help of Christ can we fully overcome tragedy. It is necessary to develop our faith in Him as the Redeemer of the world. He taught us: “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
-- Carlos H. Amado -
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
-- Charles Rangel -
He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.
-- Charles Stanley -
It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.
-- Chaz Bono -
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
-- Che Guevara -
With love in our hearts, there is nothing we cannot overcome.
-- Cheng Yen -
In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.
-- Chris Stein -
...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.
-- Christiaan Huygens -
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
-- Christopher Lasch -
I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.
-- Chuck Norris
