Overcoming Quotes - Page 25

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.

I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.

I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that.

The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome.

Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

Do you realize that your life at this very moment is the result of everything that you have ever thought , done , believed , or felt up until now ? You can start right now to consciously and deliberately attract whatever you desire in this lifetime.

Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.

I need to remember to overcome.

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

I guess, the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life are deaths of people close to me.

As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.

We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to overcome them is not always easy.

He that endures is not overcome.