Quotes About Surmounting

#1. I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

John Mellencamp

#2. Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Samuel Johnson

#3. The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Epicurus

#4. There are many ways to find meaning in life, one of them is the love of art

Ndiritu Wahome

#5. For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Alan Arkin

#6. (U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

Northrop Frye

#7. Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are.

Victor Robert Lee

#8. What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Peter Diamandis

#9. An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

John Dewey

#10. If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.

Martin McGuinness

#11. He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

Doc Severinsen

#12. Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Louis Pasteur

#14. Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Tony Robbins

#15. It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

Hannah Webster Foster

#16. Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.

Tom Althouse

#17. Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

Rick Springfield

#18. A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

Catherine McAuley

#19. where the pleasure subsists in the simple fact that you are doing it, that you can do it, that the challenge you never set yourself before has presented itself whereat the joy of embracing it, meeting it and surmounting it is supreme.

G Fife

#20. The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it?

Helen Keller

#21. I only grow hair in places that men like.

Lea Thompson

#22. It's a little early in our relationship for us to be 'surmounting,' but, hey, I'm game if you are. I'll even let you be on top." He looked directly at me, a coy smile playing on his lips.

Stacey Marie Brown

#23. It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

Lajos Kossuth

#24. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?

Eliphas Levi