Top 100 Overcomes Quotes
#1. The truly brave man is not the man who does not feel fear but the man who overcomes it.
H.G.Wells
#2. Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat.
Lao-Tzu
#3. One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
Gautama Buddha
#4. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
Lysa TerKeurst
#5. We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.
Anneli Rufus
#6. Because," Leonard said, "light overcomes darkness. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe you can be defeated.
Dave Barry
#7. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
Scott Hammerle
#8. Every person who walks uprightly, does the best that he can, overcomes the world, rises above carnality, and walks in paths of righteousness will have his acts and his deeds sealed and approved by the Holy Spirit.
Bruce R. McConkie
#9. The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.
Anthony Kennedy
#10. The anointing is what enables us to labour, without having to apply any special effort. The anointing is what overcomes every difficulty that would beset us, that we in our own strength and with our own abilities would normally not be able to cope with.
Sunday Adelaja
#11. A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.
Elizabeth George
#12. The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.
Pope Benedict XVI
#13. I do not believe the loss of a child is something one ever overcomes. One puts on the faces one needs, but inside, one bleeds and bleeds.
Elizabeth Berg
#14. Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.
Laozi
#15. What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,
the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.
Laozi
#17. The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#18. Success is not always measured by what one becomes but often by what one overcomes.
Beverly Gandara
#19. When miracles happen, hope destroys hopelessness, joy overcomes pain, love conquers hate, and faith finds God in the midst of it all.
Cherie Hill
#20. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
Stephen Richards
#21. The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.
Thomas Aquinas
#22. That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
Laozi
#23. He who overcomes himself is mighty.
Lao-Tzu
#24. There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired.
Carl Henegan
#25. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
George Lois
#26. The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
Rumi
#27. The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
Laozi
#30. One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
Andre Gide
#31. If you believe that everyone born of God overcomes the world, your country will see the beautiful morning of a new life
Sunday Adelaja
#32. Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
Seth Godin
#33. There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.
Leonard Jacobson
#34. The Italians even have a word for the mark left on a table by a moist glass (culacino) while the Gaelic speakers of Scotland, not to be outdone, have a word for the itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whiskey. (Wouldn't they just?) It's sgriob.
Bill Bryson
#35. Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven ... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.
John Calvin
#37. A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
Sigmund Freud
#38. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Leopold Von Ranke
#39. I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.
Twyla Tharp
#40. (To illustrate from) the case of all females: - the female always overcomes the male by her stillness.
Lao-Tzu
#41. That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.
Laozi
#43. While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.
John Calvin
#44. The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.
Lao-Tzu
#45. In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.
Frederic Bastiat
#46. Yet Barkley drew back. Perhaps he, like Harry Truman, knew that the quiet power of incumbency easily overcomes the noise of crowds and bands.
David Pietrusza
#47. It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.
Pope Benedict XVI
#49. Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.
Adam Lambert
#50. For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer
#51. Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#52. I want to be that which overcomes itself Listening to them makes me weak and small I watch them go out and fuck each other They tell me that I'm crazy The years scar me I don't want a smooth ride I want the crushing wheel
Henry Rollins
#53. In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.
Vincent Nichols
#54. What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#55. If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy.
But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.
Jimmy Carter
#56. A madman overcomes it by adapting to his surroundings. You can't give up. Why die? There is always another mission; it's the missions that keep you alive.
Stephen Richards
#57. But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
Aeschylus
#58. The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.
Pope Francis
#59. Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
Edgar Degas
#60. The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
Marianne Moore
#61. I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.
Bill Bryson
#62. A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
James Russell Lowell
#63. Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.
Saigyo
#64. An adamant silence overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of an indefinable unknown, unconsciously desired.
Carl Henegan
#65. Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#66. Everyone has problems ... Everyone faces challenges ... Overcomes them one by one ... And gets a little stronger each time ...
Hinako Ashihara
#67. True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.
Kyuzo Mifune
#68. He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
Aristotle.
#69. As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.
Lucan
#70. We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.
A.B. Simpson
#71. Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
#72. A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes
Anderson Silva
#73. There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#74. It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
John Singer Sargent
#75. I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you
when you think to call my name.
Jane Kenyon
#76. Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed
Booker T. Washington
#77. He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
Laozi
#78. It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene
D.H. Lawrence
#79. Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?
L.E. Maxwell
#80. When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own
George Muller
#81. Knowledge overcomes ignorance as sunlight darkness.
Prakasika
#82. The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there is no crevice.
Lao-Tzu
#83. We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#84. 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 overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.
Laozi
#86. Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. Light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated.
Dave Barry
#88. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
#89. The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
Ulrich Beck
#90. Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Hunter S. Thompson
#91. When Allah created his creatures He wrote above His throne: 'Verily, my Compassion overcomes my wrath.
Anonymous
#92. I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.
Stephen Dillane
#93. This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.
Rumi
#94. Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
Martin Luther
#95. A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
Christopher Reeve
#96. If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vishnudevananda Saraswati
#97. Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
Alexis Carrel
#98. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois
#99. Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Pope John Paul II
#100. I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!
Pope Francis
