Overcoming Quotes

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

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

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

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

There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

Habit is overcome by habit.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.

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.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

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.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.

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.

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.