Overcoming Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.

  Oliver Smithies

  Flying, Overcoming Fear, Teach

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• Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

  William Ralph Inge

  Trust No One, Hiking, Challenges

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• The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

  Jack Brymer

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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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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• 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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• 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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• ...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Science, Amusement, Biographies

  Gilbert Burnet (1745). “An Exposition of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England”, p.176

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• There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Struggle, Character, Men

  "Futurism: An Anthology" edited by Laura Wittman, Christine Poggi, Yale University Press, (p. 52), 2009.

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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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• Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.

  J Clifford Hudson

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Want

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• Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Science, Expression, Evil

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• Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]

  Augustus De Morgan

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan (p. 178), 1872.

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• You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger!

  Shannon MacMillan

  Softball, Sports, Dream

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• For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Believe, Going Away, Trying

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• Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Clever, Integrity

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• The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

  Democritus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 163), 1948.

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• He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Taken, Jail

  Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.391

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• Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began.

  Dennis Wholey

  Spiritual, Struggle, Discovery

  Dennis Wholey (1992). “When the worst that can happen already has: conquering life's most difficult times”, Hyperion Books

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• I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Letting Go, Struggle

  Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Done, Useless

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.355, Macmillan

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• If you feel "stuck" today, you may want to examine what you're holding on to. Be willing let go of past disappointments by choosing forgiveness. Who hurt you? Who wronged you? Release it to God. Do you need to forgive yourself? Do you need to receive God's forgiveness? Let go of the past so you can overcome disappointments and experience the bright future God has in store for you! There is freedom in forgetting!

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Hurt

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• Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc., there is no other way to overcome them except by practicing more diligently. You need to read Master's books and to listen to Master's tapes more often, meditate more, do Quan Yin more, put more effort into your practice and concentrate more on the path of practice. It is safe only when you are sheltered by the supreme power, no other way.

  Ching Hai

  Spiritual, Book, Inspiration

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• The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

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• Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Drug, Pills, Ears

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