Top 100 We Overcome Quotes
#1. Can we overcome our anger, instead of constantly being overcome by it? Yes - with God's help. Peter's anger was channeled into boldness for Christ. Paul's anger against Christians was replaced with a burning passion to spread the Gospel. Is this your goal?
Billy Graham
#2. We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.
Joe Biden
#3. By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.
Fay Chung
#4. Mercy will we overcome this
Oh one by one could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I try to give you what you need
Dave Matthews Band
#5. Let us constantly bear in mind the rules and principles of Christian warfare; namely, that we conquer by yielding, we receive by giving, we overcome by being defeated, and we live by dying. There is no other way except the way of the Cross.
George Warnock
#6. We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
Joe Biden
#7. I know not how to defeat others, I only know how to win over myself. The real and most dangerous opponents we face in life are fear, anger, confusion, doubt and despair. If we overcome those enemies who attack from within , we can attain a sure victory over any attack from without.
Chris Bradford
#8. We all have pain, Wes. It isn't life sithout it. What matters in life isn't that we escape pain. What matters is that we overcome it.
Heidi Cullinan
#9. The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.
Debasish Mridha
#10. God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.
Oswald Chambers
#11. We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.
Erin Hunter
#12. Being human is a divine gift. It is also not necessary that we overcome all our sins and become saints.We need to realize that we are born imperfect and will remain so until death.
Gian Kumar
#13. Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
Leo Buscaglia
#14. Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith.
Royden G. Derrick
#15. When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.
Desmond Tutu
#16. Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.
Gabriela Isler
#17. Considering how effortlessly religious dogma has become intertwined with political ideology, how can we overcome the clash-of-monotheisms mentality that has so deeply entrenched itself in the modern world? Clearly, education and tolerance are essential.
Reza Aslan
#18. By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#20. It's not about our struggles ...
It's about how we overcome them.
Jose N. Harris
#22. Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
John Eldredge
#23. The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#24. [The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.
Lance Armstrong
#25. We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.
D. A. Carson
#26. I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.
Brett Favre
#27. No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.
Rosemary Altea
#28. The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.
Anne Bancroft
#29. I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
Samuel L. Jackson
#30. We overcome, not because we're a moral majority or a righteous remnant, but because we're blood-covered sinners who know that if the gospel can change us, it can change anyone.
Russell D. Moore
#31. In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#32. Life's difficulties develop in us strong spirit. Every challenge we overcome promotes strength of the spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#33. None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.
Jason Versey
#34. Success is measured not in how much we accomplish, but in how much we overcome.
Mary Whyte
#35. Because with joy, we overcome the terror. With love, strength, and hope, we prevail.
Sarah Darer Littman
#37. Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That's how we overcome, most of the time. It's not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.
Neal A. Maxwell
#39. Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
John Bunyan
#40. Together, we overcome the drought of happiness and goodness, by seeing our glasses half full and helping fill others' glasses back up with love.
Emilyann Girdner
#41. When we overcome the fear of death, we become deathless, endless, and infinite.
Debasish Mridha
#42. We overcome the world because God is our shield and protection
Sunday Adelaja
#43. The Buddhist approach to this collective suffering is to turn toward it. We understand that genuine happiness and meaning will come through tending to suffering. We overcome out own despair bby helping other to overcome theirs.
Jack Kornfield
#44. If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
Stephen Covey
#45. How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.
Kristin Kreuk
#46. It's not the circumstances we find ourselves in that define us, it's how we overcome them.
Nicole Reed
#47. There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.
Pope Francis
#48. When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.
Tanya R. Liverman
#49. There are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#51. Those of us who live with twisted bits like to think we can overcome them.
Eliza Crewe
#52. People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there's no reason why we should add weight to create value. People have to overcome these notions.
Richard Mille
#53. For years, a motto often repeated in the Canadian Armed Forces was "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." This was a fancy way of saying we should make do with whatever tools we were given." p. 119
Jody Mitic
#54. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. We must overcome the notion that we must be regular ... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Uta Hagen
#56. We all wish to live a happy life. In addition, we all have the same right to fulfil this goal. And we all have the potential to do so for the simple reason that future is not fixed, it can be changed. Therefore, we should live in hope that we really can overcome whatever problems we face.
Dalai Lama
#57. We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. Sometimes, to overcome a hurdle before us, we don't need to search for new truth or understanding of God so much as we need to live out what we already know.
Amy Layne Litzelman
#59. When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
Sam Raimi
#60. We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.
Jessica Lave
#61. We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth ... we have the capacity to overcome our limits.
Jason Silva
#62. The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.
Brian Krans
#63. God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
C.S. Lewis
#64. We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.
Che Guevara
#65. Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome.
Nick Vujicic
#66. The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.
Hakan Nesser
#67. My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#68. Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
Mahmoud Darwish
#69. There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
Paulo Coelho
#70. It would seem that very few good things in life come from our accepting the present moment as it is. To become educated, we must be motivated to learn. To master a sport requires that we continually improve our performance and overcome our resistance to physical exertion. To
Sam Harris
#71. Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.
James Frain
#72. I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.
Lucas Papademos
#73. America's foundational philosophy is what sets her apart from the troubles and tribulations of the other nations around the globe. If we continue to move away from a biblical foundation, we will find ourselves facing troubles we will be ill equipped to overcome.
Karla Perry
#74. We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#75. We no longer live in that fabulous age when the sun, to whom we owe so much, was so generous that it halted its journey over Gibeon in order to give Joshua ample time to overcome the five kings besieging the city.
Jose Saramago
#76. We're working to overcome the overly macho nature of the current online console game world, where a handful of the high testosterone crowd fight for supremacy, while the mass of casual game players stay away.
Reggie Fils-Aime
#77. Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.
Bartlett Sher
#78. I run to feel complete, to feel alive, to feel happy, and to feel free. I run to visit beautiful places, to overcome my fears, and to remind myself - and others - that our limits may not be where we think they are.
Chrissie Wellington
#79. We are the road that winds down a sound mind, then slips into the sea.
Anthony Liccione
#80. We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
Ban Ki-moon
#81. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won't fight for joy in heaven.
But we are not there yet.
John Piper
#82. Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.
O. J. Brigance
#83. Old friends become more and more precious to us as the years pass. They can look at us for who we once were and who we are now, appreciating the difficulties we have overcome, the abilities we have acquired, and the ways we have stayed true to ourselves.
Wendy Lustbader
#84. Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams
Sunday Adelaja
#85. We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.
Rachel L. Schade
#86. Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.
Joyce Meyer
#87. It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.
Erin Gruwell
#88. My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail.
George W. Bush
#89. There is something beautiful and redeeming about the humans. Although we, and indeed all magical creatures, always follow our nature, humans can choose to overcome it. In that sense they are in greater control of their futures than any of us.
Joseph Barone
#90. The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.
Philippe Petit
#91. Doubt, fear, and hesitation are enemies of the mind, for a weak will severs our inborn connection with the universe, dampens the faith with which we are able to join our will to it.
Stephen Richards
#92. My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
Gabby Douglas
#93. Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.
Morgan Rhodes
#94. We don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.
Mother Teresa
#95. Why do we live out every day as if there is no hope to overcome our chaos and no possibility for living a stressed-less life when Scripture repeatedly reassures us that God has the power and the peace to make that happen?
Tracie Miles
#96. There are persons who seem to overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the number of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with encouragement and opportunity, mike make great contributions.
Mary Narnett Gilson
#97. At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to an ascetic exaltation; the next we are overcome by the smell of some old garden path and weep to hear the thrushes sing.
Virginia Woolf
#98. You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.
Joseph Heller
#99. If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live, and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.
Max Heindel
#100. We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.
Adam Levin
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