Overcoming Quotes - Page 20

• It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

  Rick Yancey

  Home, People, Humanity

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.134, Penguin

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• We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

  Anneli Rufus

  Eye, Degrees, World

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• Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Lasts, Magnus Bane

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

  Veronica Roth

  Trying, Needs, Tobias

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• 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

  Anger, Men, Rage

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.428

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• All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Depressing

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• Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

  Theodore Newton Vail

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Business, People, Decision

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• Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings

  Aristotle

  Encouragement, Today, Obstacles

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• Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Attitude, Optimistic

  "The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results".

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• For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.

  George Downame

  Spiritual, Strong, Prayer

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• You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

  Mike Webster

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

  Katherine Dunham

  Inspirational, Knowing, Littles

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• The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our
  separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

  Erich Fromm

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Needs

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• The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside
  to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret
  is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and
  with all the human beings that he created.

  Amy Grant

  Loneliness, Being Alone, People

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• No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Marriage, Together, Trials

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• Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Dream, Years, Racism

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• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Regret, Grief

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• Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

  Rob Delaney

  Depression, Hard Work, Compassion

  "Rob Delaney: 'Twitter has rocketed me to a whole new level of standup'" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2013.

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• Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

  Edmund Wilson

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

  Vishnudevananda Saraswati

  War, Yoga, Opposites

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• Man is always seeking a power, a power to overcome something or destroy something; and therefore he is not living in the awareness of God, because in the realization of the presence of God there is no need to overcome, to destroy, or to do anything.

  Joel S. Goldsmith

  Power, Men, Needs

  Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Joel Goldsmith Reader”, p.42, BookBaby

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• If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

  Muhammad Yunus

  Focus, Credit, Poverty

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2015

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• ...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Hard Work, Science, Luck

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• If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  Francis Beaumont

  Forgiveness, Men, Silence

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