Overcoming Quotes

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

I need to remember to overcome.

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.

I guess, the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life are deaths of people close to me.

We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to overcome them is not always easy.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue... Pray more words about it than you speak.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.

As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.