Overcoming Quotes - Page 21

• You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mistake, Adversity, Challenges

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• I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone

  Delta Goodrem

  Love, Believe, Miracle

  Song: Believe Again, Album: Delta, 2007

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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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• With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Commitment, Hydrogen Fuel

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• One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.

  David O. McKay

  Time, Fall, Adversity

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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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• What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

  Laozi

  Humility, Rivers, Heaven

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• Realize that the reason most people fail isn't because of the competition but because of the limits they place upon themselves, allowing defeat to take over. Take responsibility for your destiny. You can come up with a performance, if you can reach down and dig deep enough into your competitive soul. You can overcome tremendous obstacles.

  Bruce Jenner

  Self Esteem, Responsibility, Destiny

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• The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, White Man, Years

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.336, Best Books on

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• There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

  Abba Hillel Silver

  Lying, Adventure, Evil

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• In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether. 'Living-space' figured more prominently, posed against the alternative international competition for markets ... The key theme now was the collapse of Germany under parliamentary democracy and party government into a divided people with separate and conflicting interests, which only the NSDAP could overcome by creating a new unity of the nation, transcending class, estate and profession.

  Ian Kershaw

  Party, Class, Creating

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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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• The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspiring, Future, Men

  "The decay and the restoration of civilization".

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• Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

  Chase Jarvis

  Photography, Art, Practice

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• When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Thoughtful, Mind

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• If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

  Henri Matisse

  Happiness, Light, People

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Giving Up, Fall

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• Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Happiness, Goal, Obstacles

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• History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Memories, History, May

  James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”

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• One must overcome history by dogma.

  Henry Edward Manning

  History, Dogma

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• One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Communication, Ideas

  John P. Kotter (2013). “John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do”, p.22, Harvard Business Press

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