Overcoming Quotes
1934 Overcoming quotes by 1283 unique authors
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It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more…
— Allan Bloom
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Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own…
— Max Horkheimer
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
— Marianne Moore
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Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of…
— Napoleon Hill
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I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take…
— Dr. John
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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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The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what…
— Carly Fiorina
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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that,…
— Kathy Acker
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky,…
— Christopher Columbus
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I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional…
— Jim Stovall
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You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity.…
— Unknown Author
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It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in…
— Thomas Traherne
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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely…
— Ernest Becker
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I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.
— Stuart Appleby
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Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation)…
— Cheri Huber
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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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Passion is a product of the heart. Passion is what helps you when you have a great dream. Passion breeds conviction and turns mediocrity into…
— Andy Andrews
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To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is…
— Dale Murphy
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An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.
— Ruth Manorama
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...we need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held...
— Samuel Ruiz
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"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse…
— Ann Coulter
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Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
— Gautama Buddha
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I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to…
— Sasha Azevedo
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As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in…
— Gautama Buddha
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