Overcoming Quotes - Page 25

• …often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Little Women, Reserves, Hard

  Louisa May Alcott (2001). “Little Women”, p.387, Broadview Press

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• In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Struggle, Humility, Passion

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.139, Applewood Books

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• In this box are all the words I know… Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.

  Norton Juster

  Book, Past, May

  "The Phantom Tollbooth". Book by Norton Juster, 1961.

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• There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

  Christine Feehan

  Betrayal, Eye, Secret

  Christine Feehan (2004). “Mind Game”, p.166, Penguin

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• Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.7, Algora Publishing

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• if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

  Goldie Hawn

  Hurt, Pain, Compassion

  Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.50, Penguin

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• My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Humanity, Constant

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.233, Vintage

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• Go and change your gown, Mary," Daniel interjected. "I'm partial to gold. If you've a gown in that color, wear it to please me. If not, white will do well enough. I'm wedding you, Lady Mary." Lord Daniel Ferguson caught Lady Mary before she hit the floor. He wasn't at all irritated that his intended had just fainted dead away, and he actually let out a full burst of laughter as he swept Mary up into his arms and held her against his chest. "She's overcome with gratitude, Alec," Daniel called out to his friend. "Aye, Daniel, I can see she is," Alec answered.

  Julie Garwood

  Gratitude, Laughter, Color

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• If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Want, Whole

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

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• Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That’s how we overcome, most of the time. It’s not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Brother, Joy, Affliction

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• You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.

  P. C. Cast

  Prejudice, Logical, Knows

  P.C. Cast (2010). “Brighid's Quest”, p.351, Harlequin

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• The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

  P. C. Cast

  Fire, Light, Sight

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• yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Moving, People

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• I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Misery, Lost

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.58, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Couple, Disappointment, Fall

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.

  Lauren Weisberger

  Giving Up, New Relationship, Obstacles

  Lauren Weisberger (2006). “Everyone Worth Knowing”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Men, Desire, Fever

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2008). “Miscellaneous Pieces: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.119, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.

  Stephen King

  Light, Long, Darkness

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• Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, Hatred, And Love

  "Reverently and Defiantly, Czechs Honor Velvet Revolution's Anniversary" by Rick Lyman, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.

  Susane Colasanti

  Tomorrow, Wanted

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.204, Penguin

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• It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Children, Native American, Generosity

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• The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

  Carl Jung

  Pain, Real, Night

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.110, Dell

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• He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. “You’re real. You’re real.” She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn’t hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.

  Maya Banks

  Real, Eye, Kissing

  Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.1063, Penguin

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• You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Fear, Devil, May

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• The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wine, Roots

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