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Overcoming Quotes - Page 39

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Edgar Degas' notebook entry (1858), as quoted in "The Notebooks of Edgar Degas" edited by Theodore Reff, 1976.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.48, Thomas Nelson

When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

"Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, "Rigante series", Ch. 2, 2002.

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

"The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 13, 1985.

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

"Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.