Overcoming Quotes - Page 37

• 'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

  William Penn

  Temptation, Sin, Tempted

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.839

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• No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit during the time of the Reformation of theologizing with a hammer that the split in the Church became irreparable. And to work at overcoming this split means much effort. Only the patient need apply.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Mean, Thinking, Effort

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• Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.

  Florence Nightingale

  Spiritual, Men, Voice

  Florence Nightingale, G?rard Vall?e, Lynn McDonald (2003). “Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.260, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Vanity, Selfishness

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 369), 1913.

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• The word of God is a tree of life that offers us blessed fruit from each of its branches. It is like that rock which was struck open in the wilderness, from which all were offered spiritual drink. Be glad then that you are overwhelmed, and do not be saddened because he has overcome you. A thirsty person is happy when drinking, and not depressed, because the spring is inexhaustible. You can satisfy your thirst without exhausting the spring; then when you thirst again, you can drink from it once more.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Spiritual, Spring, Drinking

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• As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.

  Barack Obama

  War, Home, Fighting

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• He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

  Rumi

  Angel, Animal, Lust

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Air, Numbers, Space

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.57, eKitap Projesi

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• The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

  Keith Miller

  Sacrifice, Men, Giving

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• The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

  E. F. Schumacher

  People, Giving, Ego

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• The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Thinking, Racism

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• You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

  James Frey

  Character, Goal, Obstacles

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• SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

  Philip Larkin

  Sex, People, Obstacles

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• Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Winning, Fire

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• Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Strong, Inspiration, Practice

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• We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.

  Noah Levine

  Selfish, Pursuit Of Happiness, Training

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• Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Space, Cost

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (2004). “The Aims Of Astronautics”, p.38, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the Games be held in peace, in the true spirit of the Olympic Truce. Athletes of the 80 national Olympic committees, show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You can show us a world we all long for.

  Jacques Rogge

  Sports, Religious, Athlete

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• Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of

  Michael Schudson

  Anxiety, Advertising, Great Advertising

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.6, Routledge

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• I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the dichotomy limits between heaven and hell.

  Renzo Rosso

  Tired, Creativity, Italian

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• In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

  Bertha Knight Landes

  Feminist, Prejudice, Handicaps

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• You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Adversity, Opportunity

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• God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

  Adam Hamilton

  Christmas, Heart, Light

  "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, its joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life.

  Lacey Mosley

  Jesus, Giving, Healthy

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• It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Determination, Feet, Stronger

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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