Overcoming Quotes - Page 20

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.

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

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.

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

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

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

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

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.

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

The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness. He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution giveth his life to understand all that doth encompass him, and to prevail against it, shall be increase. "The word of Sin is Restriction": seek therefore Righteousness, enquiring into Iniquity, and fortify thyself to overcome it.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

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.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]

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

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.