Overcoming Quotes - Page 39

• Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
  No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Long, People

  Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

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• A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Sex, Distance, Adventure

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• Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Judging, Sensual, Hardship

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• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

  Auberon Waugh

  Emotional, Feelings, Purpose

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• It’s not the struggles that define you; it’s how you overcome them.

  Brandi Glanville

  Struggle, Define You

  Brandi Glanville, Leslie Bruce (2014). “Drinking and Tweeting: And Other Brandi Blunders”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

  Leopold von Ranke

  Eye, Goes On, Ruins

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• Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

  Lu Buwei

  Greed, Want, Firsts

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• Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

  Alfred Adler

  Self, Knowing, Difficulty

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• There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

  Andres Iniesta

  Body, Moments, Humans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

  Andres Iniesta

  Fighting, Winning, Player

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels.

  Jim Croce

  Real, Blow, Wish

  Song: Operator

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• It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

  Emmet Fox

  Real, Law, Suffering

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• Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.

  Emmet Fox

  Keys, Golden, Enough

  Emmet Fox “The Golden Key to Prayer”, DMC

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• Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Destiny, Stronger, Woven

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

  Oliver Smithies

  Flying, Overcoming Fear, Teach

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• His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.

  Gunther Schuller

  Inspiration, Thinking, Color

  "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.

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• Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

  Adrienne Rich

  Silence, Break

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of
  good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of
  God wherewith to overcome all error.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Hate, Errors, Giving

  Mary Baker Eddy (1972). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.

  Emmeline B. Wells

  Father, Heaven, Temptation

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• The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

  Anne Bancroft

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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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• 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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• If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, Want, Obstacles

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• I know that our world is going through a very difficult time right now, but I will never lose my faith in humanity, and our incredible ability to overcome just about anything.

  Yanni

  Our World, Humanity, Difficult Times

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• My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

  George Polya

  Method, Difficulty, Rounds

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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