Top 54 Surmount Quotes
#1. Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?
Napoleon Bonaparte
#2. Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
Nathanael Emmons
#3. I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#4. Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#5. In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too.
W. Eugene Smith
#6. Education is a type of money which surmount when expend.
Azhar Sabri
#8. Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
#9. We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
Napoleon Hill
#10. Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Paul Chambers
#11. With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.
Lee Myung-bak
#12. I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.
Cornell Woolrich
#13. Belief in oneself is an essential factor for success in life. It helps
you surmount challenges on your road to success.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#14. You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.
Ralph Bunche
#15. Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live.
Paul Celan
#16. A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.
Chin-Ning Chu
#17. If we can still surmount what is natural and believe what we wish to believe, in spite of the force of evidence, then for a while at least we are masters of our fate, and we can paint the world we want.
Anne Perry
#18. Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be
or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.
James A. Baldwin
#19. Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.
Janny Wurts
#20. Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?
Brom
#21. It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. If we unite, we can surmount any mountain and make things happen for the betterment of all.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#23. The Strategy of Safeguards requires us to take a very realistic - perhaps even fatalistic - look at ourselves. But while acknowledging the likelihood of temptation and failure may seem like a defeatist approach, it helps us identify, avoid, and surmount our likely stumbling blocks.
Gretchen Rubin
#24. All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.
Samuel Smiles
#25. Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
However bright your wits
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house.
Marguerite Porete
#26. Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount.
C. JoyBell C.
#27. A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.
Sydney J. Harris
#28. We can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.
Elizabeth Bowen
#29. Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.
David O. Russell
#30. if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.
Pearl S. Buck
#31. Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.
Mao Zedong
#32. When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
Radhanath Swami
#33. Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#34. When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#35. There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#36. The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.
Napoleon Hill
#37. Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.
Theodor Herzl
#38. Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.
Daisaku Ikeda
#39. Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#40. Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.
Jerome Groopman
#41. If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#42. Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and smash myself on the rocks below.
Deva Fagan
#43. Why is grief, when inspired by certain types of loss, considered something to surmount, to get over, while when inspired by other types of loss it's given a pass, allowed and even encouraged to go on forever?
Ron Currie Jr.
#44. In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
Sigmund Freud
#45. He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Iulius Caesar
#46. I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
Cate Blanchett
#47. The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there
Martin Heidegger
#48. Maybe my sadness is too much to surmount. I can't be his wings, the person who lifts him up from the sad days. I'm hopelessly earthbound, and I'm in no position to safe anyone else.
Emery Lord
#50. The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
Joseph Joubert
#51. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.
Charlotte Dacre
#53. Energy and invincible determination, these two things will sweep away mighty barriers and will surmount the greatest obstacles
William Walker Atkinson
#54. A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.
Mason Cooley
