Surmounting Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to…
— Rick Bayan
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If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and…
— Stephen Crane
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
— Samuel Johnson
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An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
— John Dewey
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All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards…
— Eliphas Levi
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When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love…
— Eknath Easwaran
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The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it?
— Helen Keller
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It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
— Lajos Kossuth
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[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.
— Catherine McAuley
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We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human…
— Northrop Frye
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Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility…
— Jerry Saltz
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
— Epictetus
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
— Epicurus
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
— Samuel Johnson
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It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
— Louis Pasteur
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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
— Tony Robbins
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Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
— Rick Springfield
Who Wrote These Surmounting Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 23 Surmounting Quotes as follows: