Overcomes Quotes
116 quotes by 94 authors
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like…
— Laozi
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He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
— Laozi
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own…
— William G. Bainbridge
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True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible…
— Kyuzo Mifune
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The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
— Rumi
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The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he…
— Maria Montessori
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If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow…
— Laozi
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.
— SaigyÅ
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The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage…
— Anthony Kennedy
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The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures
— Democritus
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Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.
— Adam Lambert
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
— Marianne Moore
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but…
— Democritus
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If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.
— Richard Sibbes
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In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak…
— Laozi
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The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food,…
— Gautama Buddha
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It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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