Overcoming Quotes - Page 18

Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure

If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish, there's always a barrier of some kind to overcome, and it's often something over which we have no control. Instead of focusing on the barriers, let's work to become so good that we'll succeed no matter how many bad calls the ref may throw at us.

I want people to know that there's gonna be a bad part in your life and you have to overcome it to get to the good.

There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging.

The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility

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

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

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.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why-why you're doing what you're doing-then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles.

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

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

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

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another

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

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

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.