Overcome Quotes

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.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

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

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.