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.

Britt Ekland

Fame overcomes everything.

Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance

Anne Bancroft

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

Czeslaw Milosz

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

Clint Eastwood

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!

Rita Rudner

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

Robert Kennedy

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Sri Aurobindo

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.

Stefan Sagmeister

Whenever I do overcome my inherent fear, it turns out well.

John Singer Sargent

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

Matthias Schoenaerts

We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.

Plautus

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

John Stuart Mill

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

Mason Cooley

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

Mason Cooley

The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.

Mary Kay Ash

Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.

Michel de Montaigne

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Ahmet Zappa

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

Albert Schweitzer

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Christopher Lasch

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

George Harrison

Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome.

F. L. Lucas

Great fear is concealed under daring.

George Muller

When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

Jean Cocteau

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.