Overcomes Quotes
116 quotes by 92 authors
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In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles.…
— Philippe Halsman
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He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
— Unknown Author
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He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
— Leopold von Ranke
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Movement overcomes cold.
— Laozi
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Stillness overcomes heat.
— Laozi
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The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
— Laozi
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There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.
— Leonard Jacobson
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Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.
— Mas Oyama
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Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes…
— Laozi
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
— Ulrich Beck
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No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are…
— Harold Pinter
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Wisdom overcomes fortune.
— Juvenal
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We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising…
— Laozi
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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
— Aristotle
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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen…
— William Gurnall
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...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
— Martin Luther
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The bath soothes the nerves. It promotes general perspiration, quickens the circulation, overcomes obstruction in the system, and acts beneficially on the kidneys and the…
— Ellen G. White
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As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t…
— Noam Chomsky
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The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.
— Pope Francis
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