Overcoming Quotes

1934 Overcoming quotes by 1283 unique authors

Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the… — Kathleen McDonald
The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job… — Paul Billheimer
Be carefree yet careful: While you should work on overcoming unnecessary worrying, have a healthy fear of danger and sensibly guard yourself from harm. Overcoming… — Zelig Pliskin
Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we succeed. Those that… — Hal Elrod
Be grateful for your challenges, setbacks, adversity and disappointments. Be grateful for your opportunity to overcome every single one, because doing so contributes to your… — Hal Elrod
Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better. — Hal Elrod
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are… — Evagrius Ponticus
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to… — Ambrose
Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary… — Frederick Lenz
The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat;… — Pipilotti Rist
Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But… — Ashraf Ghani
You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough — Lionel Messi
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted… — Pliny the Elder
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore de Balzac
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. — James Russell Lowell
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then… — Eric Hoffer
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors,… — Samuel Johnson
All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way… — Dalai Lama
All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of… — Gautama Buddha
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction,… — Gautama Buddha
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the… — Gautama Buddha
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery. — Sallust
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. — Sigmund Freud

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