Top 100 Overtake Quotes
#1. My thoughts are limitless. Social conditioning creates the limits. I like to overtake those and like to go where my thoughts take me.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
Florence Nightingale
#3. Failure will never overtake me if my definition to succeed is strong enough
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#4. Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you.
Anthony Liccione
#5. Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus
#6. Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
Horace
#7. No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.
T. B. Joshua
#8. And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.
Max Ehrmann
#9. He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.
Dave Eggers
#10. Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
Booth Tarkington
#11. You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear. The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith. Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you?
Napoleon Hill
#12. and the castle in which she dwelt was a prison to her; and sometimes sudden fits of gusty passion would overtake her, for weariness grew to hate, and hate to wrath,
"The Serpent's Head
Lady Dilke
#13. PROTEUS: Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
SPEED: And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
William Shakespeare
#14. Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
#15. Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee - the madness - and run. "Enter,
Rudyard Kipling
#16. Intuition is a feeling and we must let it overtake our thoughts.
Matthew Donnelly
#17. [M]y religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.
Stonewall Jackson
#18. Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. Madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
Rudyard Kipling
#21. There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.
Mort Sahl
#22. If it's not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that's when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.
Joel Osteen
#24. Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
George Santayana
#25. One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.
Harriet Doerr
#26. Run while you have the light of life, that the darkness of death may overtake you not." (Rule of St. Benedict))
Frances Greenslade
#27. Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.
Pittacus Of Mytilene
#28. In real life, it is very important to be able to see a tiny difference between need for speed or just want to overtake.
Toba Beta
#29. And if any of you want some tips on running, don't be in a hurry, and never let any of the other runners know you are in a hurry even if you are. You can always overtake on long-distance running without letting others smell the hurry in you.
Colin S. Smith
#30. What our hearts want can overtake what our minds tell us is forbidden to us. We can't control these feelings, even if we desperately wish we could.
Morgan Rhodes
#31. May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
Mark Batterson
#32. For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world,
Mary Balogh
#33. A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.
Wu Cheng'en
#34. The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end. If you were the subjects of Maleldil you would have peace. p. 140
C.S. Lewis
#35. Oh, the loneliness, the loneliness. It lived inside her now like an illness, like a flu that could be ignored and then would suddenly overtake and overwhelm her.
Anna Quindlen
#36. I think he'll reach 1000 goals, but he'll never overtake my total.
(on 40-year old Romario)
Pele
#37. A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn't realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.
Mahavira
#38. I wasn't sure of it, but I was almost certain that loneliness was a disease. An infectious, disgusting illness that was slow to creep into your system and overtake you, even though you tried to fight it off the best you could.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#39. Don't you find that a terribly romantic idea? Love stealing in to overtake two people who'd believe they were merely friends?
Cecilia Grant
#40. We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
Haile Selassie
#42. Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'
Joe Klein
#43. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
#44. United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.
Roy Keane
#45. The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
Francois Rabelais
#46. ...from this day on, whenever he sought to master a woman, whether by threat or strength or even with a look, the fear would flare and overtake him -- so wild and sudden it would drop him to his knees to cower in terror, gibbering for solace from his distant, punishing god.
Laini Taylor
#47. I fight everyday to not let the past overtake me. Sometimes I win, sometimes it does.
Richelle Mead
#48. Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
Charles Mackay
#49. He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the
desires of those around him.
Sylvain Reynard
#50. Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.
Emma Roberts
#51. Anything that you dont overcome will eventualy overtake you.
Michael Strong
#52. What, do you just wake up in the morning and say, 'I think I'll overtake a small country today,' or 'I wonder if there's a long-standing government policy that needs subverting?
Anna Scarlett
#53. Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
E.B. White
#54. My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave.
Stonewall Jackson
#55. Don't let sleep overtake you; the world's awake within you.
Vasko Popa
#56. At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
Cullen Murphy
#57. I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#58. If you can overtake the fear of failure
you will be a winner in life, for sure.
Debasish Mridha
#59. You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.
Eddie Vedder
#60. But hey,
I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
Ellen Hopkins
#61. You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.
Suzanne Weyn
#62. Faint heart never won fair lady," he wrote; "neither did it ever pursue and overtake an Indian village.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#63. A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
Emily Dickinson
#64. There really was no point in having vision that didn't revolve a full 360 degrees because it was usually from behind that life would sneak up and overtake you.
Keith Buckley
#65. A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
Helen Rowland
#66. If "IT" doesn't break you, you have the opportunity to overtake "IT"!
Sanjo Jendayi
#67. Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect ... " Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. One day, scientists will overtake LIGHT and crash into the DARKNESS.
Paul McDermott
#69. The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th ... It's over already.
Fernando Alonso
#70. Yet as the evening of Sunday came on, a sadness as of death would overtake me, for at nine o'clock I had to return to school, where everything was cold and strange and severe - where the governesses, on Mondays, lost their tempers, and nipped my ears, and made me cry.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#71. Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? ... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.
Epictetus
#72. When a painting I'm working on becomes my singular focus - when I am "in the zone," as I've heard people put it - a trancelike state will sometimes overtake me.
Wally Lamb
#73. If you chase several hares at once, you won't overtake any one of them.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#74. They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you
Blake Crouch
#75. Formula One is a mind game, no question. You have to think so hard sometimes smoke comes out your ears! And if you don't keep your head in gear the car will overtake you
Mika Hakkinen
#76. All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#77. When you walk in God's favor, His blessings will chase you down and overtake you.
Joel Osteen
#78. I let the sobs overtake me then. This was not the way I imagined my life.
Carrie Ryan
#79. He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
Benjamin Franklin
#80. Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.
Swami Vivekananda
#81. In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
Aristotle.
#82. Those were the good mornings, when the sun was hot and the air was quick and promising, when the Real Business seemed right on the verge of happening and I felt that if I went just a little faster I might overtake that bright and fleeting thing that was always just ahead.
Hunter S. Thompson
#83. I felt emotions overtake me, turning my limbs into water. i felt as if kian had wrapped his whole being around me, so tightly, hugging me tightly with the ends of his soul. i could feel my heart beating quicker, my breath growing shorter as i signed.
Kailin Gow
#84. Run while you have the light of life lest the darkness of death overtake you.
Anonymous
#85. I'm Breckin," he says. "I'm in an alliance to overtake the public school system and all its minions with your daughter.
Colleen Hoover
#86. No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or what misery may be yours in place of all this slendor.
James Baldwin
#87. Though the fire and water tried to overtake me, I have come out to a place of great abundance. I know that the fires of refinement, although hard, dark, and difficult, brought me to a better and richer place in God.
Robin Bertram
#88. When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
Florence Welch
#89. I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -
Emily Dickinson
#90. I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.
Cheryl Strayed
#91. Stress is the trash of modern life-we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
Danzae Pace
#92. Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
Esperanza Spalding
#93. We wrestle with our own opponents on a daily basis. These challengers can come in numerous forms whether it be a physical challenge, emotional, or even relational issues that can overtake us. No matter what opponent we are wrestling against we can be UNSTOPPABLE.
Anthony Robles
#94. We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current plateaus and climb to higher ground.
Jack H. Goaslind
#95. No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent.
Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.
Anne Rice
#96. If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.
Greg Iles
#97. Hate the sin, not the sinner, isn't that what good people say? Or are you asking yourself at what point does the sin overtake the sinner?
Katie McGarry
#98. I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.
And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience - a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Julian Casablancas
#100. As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
Horace Mann
