Overcoming Quotes

• People who come from Compton - they're overcoming so many challenges that most people don't have to overcome, but that creates special tenacity and different skills that you just can't manufacture.

  

  Aja Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Overcoming

• Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Life
  • Overcoming

• The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation, trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • Attitude
  • Revolution
  • Mexican

• I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Work
  • Overcoming

• The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Achievement
  • Overcoming
  • Jealousy

• Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

  

  I. A. Richards
  • Poetry
  • Chaos
  • Overcoming

• The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Risk
  • Innovation
  • Overcoming

• It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Obstacles
  • Overcoming
  • Keys

• I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Sorrow

• To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.

  

  Zhuge Liang
  • Opportunity
  • Intelligent
  • Natural

• I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

  

  William Wegman
  • Children
  • Photography
  • Loneliness

• I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Believe
  • Learning
  • Goal

• You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Needs
  • Dangerous
  • Order

• Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Technology
  • Problem
  • Struggle

• Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Age
  • Community
  • Action

• As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

  

  Will Durant
  • Knowledge
  • Overcoming
  • Worshiping

• 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.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Expected
  • Accidents
  • Limitation

• To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

  

  Nannie Helen Burroughs
  • Struggle
  • Force
  • Overcoming

• When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well, I have God, and His Word is true. Though the superstitions of the heathen were a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on the sure Word, would rise above all obstructions and overcome every trial. God's cause will triumph. (William Carey, quoted in Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope, Banner of Truth 1971, p 140.)

  

  William Carey
  • Strong
  • Obstacles
  • Stronger

• A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Overcoming
  • Good Music
  • Repressed

• If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Accomplished

• Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

  

  Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Running
  • Ambition
  • Limits

• The only way to go beyond your fears is to grow beyond them and that always means challenging, overcoming and learning from them.

  

  Dean Frazer
  • Mean
  • Challenges
  • Overcoming

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