Overcomes Quotes

116 quotes by 90 authors

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie. — Avril Lavigne
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't… — Stephen Dillane
The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. — James Russell Lowell
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. — Sigmund Freud
Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear. — David Steindl-Rast
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun;… — Norman Vincent Peale
My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but… — Rashad Evans
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the… — Andre Gide
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. — Nikki Giovanni
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. — Jimi Hendrix
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. — John Keats
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. — John Milton
A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway. — Christopher Reeve
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost… — John D. Rockefeller
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. — William Butler Yeats
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. — George Lois
There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty… — Joshua Chamberlain
Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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