Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Bill Walsh

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Bill Kirby

Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement

Ariel Winter

I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

Anthony Trollope

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Conor McGregor

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Alexander Hamilton

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Thomas Reid

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Stanley Bing

Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

John Stuart Mill

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Nathan Deal

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

John Portman

Another way to understand this opposition of principles and practical obstacles is to speak of statistics and dynamics.

Sherry Levy

People don't realize the obstacles he's had to come through.

Brian Tracy

Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.

Fidel Castro

There have been nothing but obstacles and difficulties of all kinds,

Daphne Koller

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

D. H. Lawrence

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

Anne Lamott

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

Simone Weil

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Steve Backley

If obstacles are large, jump higher.