Overcome Past Quotes

#1. There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.

Mark Durie

#2. You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

Sydney J. Harris

#4. What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

Steve Pemberton

#5. I'm sorry about what you've had to live through," Dr. Walton said quietly. "But we're here to help you overcome your past. We're here to help you live." (260)

Kit Castle

#6. To overcome your troubles ... you must look past all your clouds of despair by focusing on the sunshine of hope shinning behind them.

Timothy Pina

#7. Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences.

Daniel Amen

#8. It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Dave Pelzer

#9. We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

Daniel Beaty

#10. The job of an elected president is to overcome the past and change the playing field.

Ashraf Ghani

#11. There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is the thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.

Anne Rice

#13. Everyone has something dark in their past. I suppose it's our job to overcome it. And if we can't overcome it, then all we can do is make the most of it.

Tricia Levenseller

#14. Every scar tells a story. Every change is proof of something that you've overcome. It's evidence of our past together.

J.C. Reed

#15. Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we create for ourselves is the biggest gift we can ever receive.

KoKo Nervelli

#16. Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

Lee L Jampolsky

#17. Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,
than to overcome the pain caused by it.
Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,
why men forget their prehuman ancestor.

Toba Beta

#18. We have in past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success as a species. We have overcome all enemies but ourselves.

John Steinbeck

#19. Whoever wishes to see the world truly, to rise in thought above the tyranny of practical desires, must learn to overcome the difference of attitude towards past and future, and to survey the whole stream of time in one comprehensive vision.

Bertrand Russell

#20. WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.

Linda Alfiori

#21. I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Ben Carson

#22. Because I know I will never love anyone like I love you. That's what will overcome the past every time it tries to rear its ugly head." He stepped closer. "So it's either you and me or me and me, Luce. And I don't really like myself, so I hope you'll pick the you and me option.

Nicole Williams

#23. no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.

Dave Pelzer

#24. He is overcome with the disease of love, the drunkenness of generations past. When are we ourselves, he wonders, trudging through the snow-covered banks, his coat illuminated by moon-light.

Patti Smith

#25. 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 them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.

George Whitefield

#26. In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. The world is full of victims; don't add to the growing culture of "I've a story to tell", well not unless it's a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.

Stephen Richards

#28. When you learn to love your past it becomes the wings that allow you to fly rather than the burden you drag along behind you.

Victoria Reynolds

#29. 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 improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.

Allan Bloom

#30. To change, you need to accept your past and deny to be challenged and overcome by your future.

Auliq Ice

#31. No matter what you have gone through in your youth,
it is about who you choose to be in life.
You can define your own destiny.
You can be stronger than a very difficult past
and overcome it.

Angelina Jolie