Overcoming Quotes · Page 47

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

— Erich Fromm

I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely,…

— Josh McDermitt

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

— Kelly McGonigal

Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The…

— Frederick Lenz

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult…

— Ahmet Zappa

Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it…

— John Calvin

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years…

— Noam Chomsky

My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If a person smiles even in difficult situation. It doesn't mean that he's so strong it only means that person has learned…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a…

— George Whitefield

It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is…

— Aaron McGruder

I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father…

— Bill Bryson

Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them patiently, with faith in God. He will reward your faith with power…

— Rex D. Pinegar

We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and…

— Noah Levine

“There may be something going on in your life right now, that seems like a giant, so big that you think it's…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it,…

— Dalai Lama

It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn…

— Anonymous

I do not believe that marijuana is a gateway drug, and having been a mayor trying to keep my community safe, if…

— Cory Booker

None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of…

— Bell Hooks

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of…

— Jonny Lee Miller

We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say…

— Alain de Botton

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and…

— Bella Thorne

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I…

— Gillian Anderson

I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I…

— Kirk Gibson

The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hop eall reside within you.

— Senora Roy

There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.

— Frederick Lenz

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for…

— Maureen Forrester

God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He…

— John Bevere

Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.

— Mary Kay Ash

...we need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held...

— Samuel Ruiz

If we are to overcome terrorism and violence, we need education. That is the only way we can win.

— Sakena Yacoobi

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and…

— Thomas a Kempis

“The only good thing about having a hard life was that one becomes good at overcoming obstacles if not completely eliminating them.”

— M.V. Kasi

Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead…

— Vladimir Putin

Ever since 'Demon's Souls,' I've really been pursuing making games that give players a sense of accomplishment by overcoming tremendous odds.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

— Junko Tabei

The size of your problem is nothing compared with your ability to solve them. By overestimating your problems, you underestimate yourself.

— Anonymous