It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.

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

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.

Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal

Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me.

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

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

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

This is the reality, that these people share the same problems as the rest of us and that those problems can be overcome.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!

As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

The loser is usually the one who is ready to lose. Fight, overcome difficulties, control your emotions – and you will win.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

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

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

How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us?

If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.

When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

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

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.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

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

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.

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