Insurmountable Quotes - Page 4

• Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Awake, Wells

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• There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore.

  Jared Padalecki

  Love, Hero, Book

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• Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even the geniuses with special insight into personality, ever had anything like accurate vision of one another... The most precious gift that a lover could bring to the beloved was not virginity but sexual experience. The union, it was felt, was the more pregnant the more each party could contribute from previous sexual and spiritual intimacy with others.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Party, Personality

  "Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (pp. 102, 112), 1930.

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• My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act.

  Narendra Modi

  Gujarat, Might, Problem

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• A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

  Paul Valery

  Light, Mindfulness, Sun

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• There is no insurmountable solitude.

  Pablo Neruda

  Solitude

  "Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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• It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

  David Sedaris

  Crazy, And Love, Looks

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen - or you think, "What does this all add up to?" You don't know what to do with the footage, and you've asked a lot of people for their time and a lot of people to be patient with you. And then you lose faith that you can actually make a worthwhile story out of this.

  Debra Granik

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Party, Motherhood, Thinking

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• There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weakness, Purpose, Inherent

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• Passion is a product of the heart. Passion is what helps you when you have a great dream. Passion breeds conviction and turns mediocrity into excellence! Your passion will motivate others to join you in pursuit of your dream. With passion, you will overcome insurmountable obstacles. You will become unstoppable!

  Andy Andrews

  Dream, Passion, Heart

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Inspiring, Odds

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.104, A&C Black

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• We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

  Bill Mollison

  Opportunity

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• Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Soul, Wish

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• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except
  from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Persistence, Effort, Trying

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Nature, Survival, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.30, Penguin

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• The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Philosophy, Evil, Faces

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.173, W. W. Norton & Company

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