Overcoming Quotes
1934 Overcoming quotes by 1283 unique authors
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I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
— Georg Brandes
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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
— Arthur Helps
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I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we…
— Brett Favre
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It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
— John Singer Sargent
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I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it…
— Gillian Anderson
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There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might…
— Gus Van Sant
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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
— Anne Bancroft
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I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what…
— Elizabeth Berkley
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get…
— T Bone Burnett
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I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.
— Eric Church
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But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and…
— Brad Carson
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I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit…
— Criss Angel
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In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing…
— Devon Aoki
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I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't…
— Susan Cain
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The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly…
— Vince Cable
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I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you…
— Natalie Dormer
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going…
— Ted Dekker
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Fame overcomes everything.
— Britt Ekland
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence…
— Cai Guo-Qiang
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When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship.…
— Bruce Feiler
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep…
— Joseph Story
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When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.
— Avril Lavigne
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Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a…
— Napoleon Hill
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