Overcoming Quotes - Page 26

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

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

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.