Overcoming Quotes - Page 33

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Doubt is probably the biggest obstacle to overcome. Once you rise above doubt, you are on your way to success.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.

There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.

Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together." I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words.

The only way that we may overcome the world is by coming unto Christ. And coming to Christ means walking away from the world.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life

You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.

We need to realize that we have a role to play in overcoming our own discrimination which is sometimes very subtly held.

Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Here they are today, the Democrats; they're making this big deal about how this woman [Hillary Clinton] has overcome all of this discrimination. She has overcome the biggest guns of opposition that have been arrayed against her!

Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.

When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.

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

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.

In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. There is some ground for calling a rhetorical education necessarily aristocratic education in that the rhetorician has to deal with an aristocracy of notions.

Passion overcomes obstacles.