Overcome Obstacles Quote by Anne Brontë

“He knows how selfish, how unreasonable, how self-absorbed he is being, and he is miserable but unable to stop himself [...]”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“He who allows himself to be halted by the first difficulty in his path does not go far in life.”

— Laurent Gounelle

“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he…

— Marcel Proust

“whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions”

— Imam Ali

“All his life had been based on this hostile kind of strength; a strength that viewed the world as a thing to master, to…

— Don Berry

“He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him…

— Francis Bacon

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about it. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that…

— Charles Dickens

“A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing…

— James Allen