Top 100 Quotes About Overcoming
#1. I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.
Robert Lowell
#2. Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#3. The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.
Roger Cohen
#4. It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
Golda Meir
#5. I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
Tom Hooper
#6. 'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and despair of a people and overcoming the struggle with our faith.
Robert Battle
#7. If you have a big destiny, you're going to have to meet and face some big demons. But the good news is that your strength and power is big enough to conquer them all. You are strong enough to overcome all obstacles in your way and to fulfill your Destiny.
Jeanette Coron
#8. One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
Gautama Buddha
#9. The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you'll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices.
Jeanette Coron
#10. My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.
Keith Olbermann
#11. That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless.
Greg Walloch
#14. The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness.
Mark Helprin
#15. No more crying. Tears only cause destructive
floods. When you are sad, you build a boat.
Katherine Russell
#16. Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
Tommy Franks
#17. He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another
Torii Mototada
#18. He felt teenage rejection overcoming him like a childhood virus that lies dormant, then attacks the unsuspecting adult. It would never be something he would get used to.
Kenneth Eade
#20. A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
Michelangelo
#22. To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.
Brian Tracy
#23. Money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
Amelia Barr
#24. In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.
Christopher Gorham
#25. Fleury had succeeded (but only with difficulty) in overcoming certain qualms as to whether selling one's life as dearly as possible, or even putting it up for sale at all, was, in fact, the wisest course
J.G. Farrell
#27. God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.
Adam Hamilton
#29. When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.
Bruce Feiler
#30. You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity.
Debasish Mridha
#31. You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.
Bruce Lee
#32. See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.
Wayne Dyer
#33. Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.
Jentezen Franklin
#34. The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
Anthony Trollope
#36. If we let fear control our decision making we always make the wrong decision.
Butch Bellah
#37. I've been so afraid to dance in front of people, so now I make it a point to confront my fears and chase my demons.
Robin S. Sharma
#38. We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy.
Wayne Dyer
#39. A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.
Ray A. Davis
#41. Although she missed the singing by the children from the school opposite her apartment, she didn't teach her own pupils to sing 'We Shall Overcome' in any language, because she wasn't sure that Overcoming was anywhere on anyone's horizon.
Arundhati Roy
#43. You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger!
Shannon MacMillan
#44. Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.
David Belle
#45. When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.
Kenneth Copeland
#46. Work is of utmost importance in a person's life and not only as a means of meeting one's needs at various levels of Maslow's pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.
Indu Muralidharan
#47. Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it
Bradley Bowman
#48. If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
Walter Savage Landor
#49. With love in our hearts, there is nothing we cannot overcome.
Cheng Yen
#50. God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#51. Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
Thornton T. Munger
#52. My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.
Mercedes McCambridge
#53. If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years.
Henry Ford
#54. Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Matthew J. Kirby
#55. As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!
T. B. Joshua
#56. Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.
Richard G. Scott
#57. In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.
Steve Harvey
#58. Overcoming fear - of any sort - allows one to open up to the flow of opportunities.
Ashwin Sanghi
#59. Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.
William Zinsser
#60. One-on-one approaches to overcoming abuse work well only when the wider community pulls together to create an environment in which the victims are supported and the abusers held accountable.
Lundy Bancroft
#61. Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.
Robin Roberts
#62. Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.
Jane Fonda
#63. If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.
Thomas Merton
#64. Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#65. Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.
Paul Rand
#66. The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us.
Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.
Jared Leto
#68. Here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#71. Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#72. Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.
Rory Vaden
#73. God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#74. The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.
Thomas S. Monson
#75. It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.
Maurice Flanagan
#76. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E.B. White
#77. As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
Will Durant
#78. sing so loud that the music
drowns out the sounds of
the naysayers.
one day they'll be singing
your song.
JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon
#79. One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
Fulton J. Sheen
#80. My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.
George Polya
#81. Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#82. It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You'll probably get kicked in the face.
Dan Pearce
#83. As thy days are so shall thy strength be.d harder so ur overcoming strength
Ikechukwu Joseph
#84. No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago. - Rose Red (Fables: Vol.21, Happily Ever After)
Bill Willingham
#85. To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.
Chris Weitz
#86. ...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.
John Gardner
#87. Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word.
T. B. Joshua
#89. The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
Bertrand Russell
#90. Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.
Robert Breault
#91. The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.
Sigmund Freud
#92. Every person has their own unique circumstances to overcome, but every single person has the opportunity to achieve anything - and change everything.
Rhonda Byrne
#94. That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
Laozi
#95. Conversion may mean changing one's mind, overcoming prejudices, looking at things differently. Someone has remarked that conversatio means never having to say, 'But we've always done it this way.
Benet Tvedten
#96. A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.
Orrin Woodward
#97. Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.
Vironika Tugaleva
#98. I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.
Brooke Burns
#100. I come from strong people who believe in the freedom of expression and, of course, a culture that believes in that. So the idea of overcoming adversity is something that is not unfamiliar.
Robert Battle
