Top 100 Quotes About Overcoming
#1. The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me, because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today.
Maya Angelou
#2. it's not the obstacles in our life that define us. It's the grace we display when overcoming them.
Tracy Brogan
#3. Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
Alfred Adler
#4. Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on
and accepting them as they really are.
Kat Von D.
#5. Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.
Gibson, Chrissy
#6. Belief in a story," Uriel said, "of good confronting evil, of light overcoming darkness, of love transcending hate." He tilted his head. "Isn't that where all faith begins?
Jim Butcher
#7. As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.
Shunroku Hata
#8. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
Steven Pinker
#9. The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps
Yevgeny Primakov
#10. The central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good?
Miroslav Volf
#11. The bottom line is that if you become a master at handling problems and overcoming obstacles, what can stop you from success? The answer is nothing! And if nothing can stop you, you become unstoppable!
T. Harv Eker
#12. I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
Kathleen Battle
#13. It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.
Ardeth Kapp
#14. Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.
Enrico Caruso
#15. I don't really love writing. I don't love the feeling of starting a new file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.
John Branch
#16. Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head.
Connie Kerbs
#17. For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.
Alan Watts
#18. Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
Matthew Fox
#19. No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.
Suzanne V. Marshall
#20. The World is full of pain,suffering and many situations we never want to face. Truth is we must overcome it all to move on to better,brighter days in our lives.Overcoming is the only way we can.
Timothy Pina
#21. You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.
Mark Victor Hansen
#22. Did that mean she had not cared deeply for any of her husbands? I wondered. Or only that she was a woman of great strength, capable of overcoming grief, not once, but over and over again?
Diana Gabaldon
#23. Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.
Rudolf Steiner
#24. SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
Philip Larkin
#25. Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.
Shannon Mullen
#26. Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.
John P. Kotter
#27. Fear is your brains way of protecting you,
overcoming fear is the souls way of loving you
Steven Aitchison
#28. The ultimate goal of the arriviste's aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than others. He merely uses the "thing" as an indifferent occasion for overcoming the oppressive feeling of inferiority which results from his constant comparisons.
Max Scheler
#29. You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired.
Ken Field
#30. All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller
#31. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer
#32. Favorable outcomes conceal our weaknesses.
Overcoming unfavorable outcomes reveals our strengths.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
Cornel West
#34. A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths
Daisaku Ikeda
#35. We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
Stephen Covey
#36. If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.
Richie Norton
#37. 'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.
Jason Reitman
#38. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.
Emma Watson
#39. Passion is the journey inward.. Purpose is the journey overcoming the fear.. Know Freedom and Leave Your Legend.
Jonathan Bailey
#40. I feel like every project that I've been doing, I've learned something about myself. It's like I've cracked something, or my vision of myself has gotten wider. I'm just learning and growing, and overcoming the fear.
Agyness Deyn
#41. Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
Guy Finley
#42. Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.
John Mott
#43. There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.
David O. McKay
#44. Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis Of Assisi
#45. It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.
Pope Francis
#46. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more ...
Elie Wiesel
#47. When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.
Charles M. Schwab
#48. Keep strong and stay determined. You are capable of overcoming the challenge.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone all of Israel's previous kings, including His mighty ancestor, King David.
Charles R. Swindoll
#50. I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions ... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
Boris Yeltsin
#51. Many times we are our worst enemy. If we could learn to conquer ourselves, then we will have a much easier time overcoming the obstacles that are in front of us.
Stephan Labossiere
#52. For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.
Jerry Seinfeld
#53. SUCCESS does not mean an absence of problems, it is overcoming problems. Success is not measured by how high we go up in life, but how many times we bounce back when we fall down.
Shiv Khera
#54. Destiny isn't something you make as you're told. By overcoming difficulties, life and this whole world can advance forward. That's what destiny is for. A world that has lost the power to advance forward, will be destroyed - Aladdin
Shinobu Ohtaka
#55. In the violence of overcoming, in the disorder of my laughter and my sobbing, in the excess of raptures that shatter me, I seize on the similarity between a horror and a voluptuousness that goes beyond me, between an ultimate pain and an unbearable joy!
Georges Bataille
#56. Vadderung grinned. I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.
Jim Butcher
#57. Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened
Frederick Lenz
#58. You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.
Dannel Malloy
#60. We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
Malcolm Fraser
#61. Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
Ben Stiller
#62. Building confidence comes from overcoming the voice in your head that says you are not capable; silence the noise and then prove it wrong.
Sam Owen
#64. The overcoming power is God's; the overcoming privilege is ours!
Jack W. Hayford
#65. Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.
Travis Fimmel
#66. In human affairs, we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged, we keep in order, what has gone amiss we improve or change, what we cannot change and improve we bear, overcoming all trouble and sustaining all by prayer. Against such forces there is no help but prayer.
Martin Luther
#67. Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright
#68. Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
Bono
#69. Because human nature will not deny its weaknesses, even where it is seemingly in the process of overcoming them.
Joseph Roth
#70. The toughest part about riding a horse is overcoming the urge to eat it.
Brian South
#71. I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
Flannery O'Connor
#72. Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#73. Strength comes from ignoring your critics.
Power comes from mastering your fears.
Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents.
Superiority comes from overcoming your losses.
Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. The Power of The Heart is capable of overcoming without effort almost every negativity.
Steven Redhead
#75. Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
John Katzenbach
#76. Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.
Frederick Lenz
#77. There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#78. Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
#79. The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#80. Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Bill Bradley
#81. Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.
Peter Eigen
#82. The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
#83. I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.
Brad Paisley
#84. The will to power, the force of desire, appears as an insensitive urge to dominate. But several points in Nietzsche's work speak against such a reading. The "self" includes the desire above all for self-overcoming. It is our own limits we most seek to break.
Karmen MacKendrick
#85. I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
Adam Rapp
#86. The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
Moliere
#87. It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
Herbie Hancock
#88. If you endured the suffering, shall find the joy of overcoming any difficulty.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
Sharon Begley
#90. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
Lou Holtz
#91. A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.
Brian Tracy
#92. No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller ... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.
Theodore Zeldin
#93. Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.
Ralph Marston
#95. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
#96. If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.
Brian McDermott
#97. Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
Che Guevara
#98. They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.
N. Scott Momaday
#99. I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.
Hoda Kotb
#100. Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life ... even nicotine cravings
Aristotle.
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