Overcome Quotes

1666 Overcome quotes by 1129 unique authors

Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome. — Joan Rivers
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. — W. Clement Stone
With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall the life never… — Margaret Fuller
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh… — Aldous Huxley
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy. — John Lyly
Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other… — James E. Faust
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. — Jeff Cooper
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. — Laozi
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary… — Laura Hillenbrand
No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled… — George Whitefield
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side… — Thomas Adams
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see… — John Bunyan
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. — William J. H. Boetcker
Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. — Francis Beaumont
One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion. — Dalai Lama
To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation.… — Judith Orloff
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em. — Thomas Otway
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. — Eric Hoffer
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. — Lydia M. Child
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability… — Maya Angelou
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for… — Friedrich Nietzsche
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur

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