Being Overwhelmed Quotes

• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Character, Power

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Overwhelmed, Sometimes, Forget

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• If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Mistake

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Persistence, People

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• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Men, Overwhelmed

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• At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

  Nigella Lawson

  Anxiety, Literature, Overwhelmed

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• One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Depression, Sadness, Overwhelmed

  Jackie Kennedy's remarks after President Kennedy's assassination, 1963.

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• I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Drinking, Happy Friday

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• Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

  John Calvin

  Fear, Sailing, Mind

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Heart, Compassion

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• Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

  Andrew Weil

  Resilience, Balance, Demand

  Andrew Weil, M.D. (2013). “8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

  Tony Blair

  Government, People, Size

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• Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

  Liz Miller

  Keys, Anxiety, Missing

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Giving, Joy

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• Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.

  Bill Hybels

  Cutting, Numbers, People

  Bill Hybels, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1994). “Prayer: Too Busy Not to Pray”, p.11, InterVarsity Press

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• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Historical

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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• The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

  Kevin Kelly

  Innovation, Overwhelmed, Fringe

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• But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

  Everett Ruess

  Overwhelmed

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

  Kenny Chesney

  Self, Feelings, Emotion

  "Spiritual side of Kenny Chesney". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Fighting, Ideas

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.209, VM eBooks

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• Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Running, Hero

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• It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Facts, Overwhelmed, Ends

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