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  Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

  George Santayana

  Selfish, Men, Inferiority

  "Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana".

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• Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Order, Way

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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Work, Giving, Lessons

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• Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

  Watchman Nee

  Blessed, Sin, Believer

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.232, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taught Us, Profound, Challenges

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.250, Pan Macmillan

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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• A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Nails, Habit

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• Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

  Ben Stiller

  Desire, Genius, Comedy

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• The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Track, Important, Would Be

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Passion, Thoughtful

  Errinerungen, Tr"ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962) ch. 9

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• Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

  Golda Meir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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• Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Understanding, May, Mysterious

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Running, Writing, Stories

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• It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Mistake

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• Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Good Man, Literature

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• I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

  Rock Hudson

  Names, Rocks, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

  Helmut Kohl

  Europe, Goal, Unity

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