Overcoming Quotes

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. [Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.]

The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them.

Fear can be overcome by faith.

That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless.

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake.

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.

We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

Literature is the best way to overcome death.

Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me.

I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.

Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature right then.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.

When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to overcome it.

I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.

I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing.

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

Going against Jim Brown wasn't any different than going against Jim Taylor and any of the other guys. He's just an obstacle that we have to overcome. We just couldn't put anything together.