Overcoming Quotes - Page 20

• Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Hate, Giving

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• I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

  Mandy Moore

  Choices, Parent, Gone

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• I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

  Shemar Moore

  Careers, Obstacles, Brad

  "Shemar Moore talks Diary of a Mad Black Woman!". Interview With Brian B., movieweb.com. February 22, 2005.

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• Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

  Hannah More

  Goal, Helping, Problem

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• If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

  Gary Numan

  Nostalgia, Problem, Difficult

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• The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Government, Leader, Vivid

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• Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Team, Rain

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• Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

  Matthew Perry

  Order, Addiction, Trying

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• Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

  Plautus

  Courage, Evil, Half

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• One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Successful, Thinking, Years

  "Readers recommend: songs about obstacles" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2015.

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• Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Political, Intellectual

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• Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

  Paul Rand

  Lying, Mind, Balance

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• 'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

  Jason Reitman

  Coffee, Sacrifice, Self

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• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  Pat Riley

  Positive, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

  Nile Rodgers

  Thinking, Judging Yourself, Speak

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• This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

  Mitt Romney

  Effort, Pay, Osama Bin Laden

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

  Paul Ryan

  Strong, America, Optimism

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Adversity, Doubt

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.4, Full Moon Publications

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• Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

  Nate Silver

  Rooms, Tough, Pitcher

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• No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

  William Howard Taft

  Fighting, Winning, Elements

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Ideas, Democracy, Force

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• I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Hate, Heart, Pet

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2009.

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• When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.

  Johnny Vegas

  Confidence, Children, Hands

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• I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

  Ricky Williams

  Fans, Teammate, Want

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

  Carter G. Woodson

  Finals, Segregation, Accepting

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.101, Book Tree

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