Overcoming Quotes · Page 18

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

— Lou Holtz

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity.

— Mesut Ozil

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

— Malcolm X

The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.

— Malcolm Goodwin

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

— Moliere

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

— Charles Spurgeon

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

— Charlotte Bronte

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

— Joseph P. Farrell

To come out of your inhibition and undesirable bad habits you must inculcate habits of successful people.

— Anil Sinha

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

— Abraham Lincoln

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use…

— Dominique Moceanu

You're not in a fight until there's pressure. Resistance. Overcoming something. Otherwise, it's just an exhibition.

— Teddy Atlas

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

— Ricky Williams

We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God…

— Brother Yun

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal

— Brian Tracy

“Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness,…

— Johnnie Dent Jr

There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower…

— Anonymous

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere...…

— Peter Drucker

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity,…

— Brian Tracy

My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things…

— Rashad Evans

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for…

— John C. Maxwell

What can not be overcome in prayer? Answer me! What cannot be done by the hand of the Almighty? Answer me! What…

— Paul Washer

Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions…

— Dalai Lama

The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Don't get discouraged. As far as I'm concerned, a positive attitude is the most important attribute any runner can have. You'll need…

— Amby Burfoot

“I've always felt like my calling was to inspire people. And not with famed, epic accomplishments, but with imperfection, struggles and humanity.…

— Jennifer DeLucy

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there…

— Richard Bach

From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world,…

— David Saperstein

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Ivan Turgenev

Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger

— Michael Kirby

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

— Adrienne Rich

You will never fail until you stop trying. Disappointment is only for those who expect to much.

— Anonymous

“No glass ceiling was ever shattered by a whiner.”

— Melanie Hope

Overcoming my sister's shadow was the biggest thing I ever tried to do.

— Reggie Miller

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero