Overcoming Quotes

1934 Overcoming quotes by 1283 unique authors

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way. — Guy Finley
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of… — C.S. Lewis
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm… — Dalai Lama
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's… — Bill McKibben
Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome. — Joan Rivers
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. — Unknown Author
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths — Daisaku Ikeda
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
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
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
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for… — Thornton T. Munger
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
Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety. — Tommy Franks
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
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
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

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