Overcome Quotes
1666 Overcome quotes by 1129 unique authors
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To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose,
— C. Wright Mills
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The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York…
— Terry Fox
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Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.
— Ted Koppel
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Dream and don't ask too many questions, or fear will overcome your feelings.
— Paulo Coelho
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When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.
— Brian Tracy
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The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer,…
— Jim Rohn
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Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if…
— Matthias Schoenaerts
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Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.
— H.G. Wells
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We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.
— Dalai Lama
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To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan,…
— Marci Shimoff
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People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's…
— Dalai Lama
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
— Adrienne Rich
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The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.
— Anne Bancroft
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the…
— Booker T. Washington
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The world can be a challenging and difficult place in which to live. We are often surrounded by that which would drag us down. As…
— Thomas S. Monson
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We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle…
— Ernest Holmes
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Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the…
— Dalai Lama
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When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and…
— Steven Pressfield
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One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.
— Dalai Lama
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The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward…
— Boyd K. Packer
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What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and that is when you have to show what kind…
— Ricky Hatton
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Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win…
— D. H. Lawrence
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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that…
— Christina Stead
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