Overcoming Quotes - Page 30

• There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Adversity, Good Character

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• We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

  Robert G. Allen

  Struggle, Caring, Growth

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• You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Natural, Revulsion

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• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

  William Hazlitt

  Perseverance, Passion, Ambition

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.62

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• Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

  John H. Johnson

  Perseverance, Encouragement, Hard Work

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• Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

  Laozi

  Strong, Water, Hard

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• My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome.

  Tupac Shakur

  Spiritual, Party, Mean

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• By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Attitude, Humility, Compassion

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• Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Block, Choices

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.80, Thomas Nelson

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• I believe it is our attitude that determines our altitude. It is our attitude that allows us to soar above those things that would otherwise overcome us.

  T. D. Jakes

  Attitude, Believe, Soar

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• You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mistake, Adversity, Challenges

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• One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.

  David O. McKay

  Time, Fall, Adversity

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• What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

  Laozi

  Humility, Rivers, Heaven

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• The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife. The greatest directors of men are those who yield place to others. This is called the Virtue of not striving, the capacity for directing mankind; this is being the compeer of Heaven. It was the highest goal of the ancients.

  Laozi

  Humility, Men, Yield

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• There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

  Abba Hillel Silver

  Lying, Adventure, Evil

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• Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Mother, Spiritual, Pain

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• I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

  Drew Gooden

  Sports, Diversity, Dumb

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• The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.

  Anton Webern

  Struggle, Keys, Pieces

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• Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable.

  John Hospers

  People, Personality, Luck

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• Though a man may be found in a weak state, that does not at all mean that he has been abandoned by God. On the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ was in trouble, as the world sees things. But when the sinful world considered Him to be completely destroyed, in fact He was victorious over death and hades. The Lord did not promise us positions as victors as a reward for righteousness, but told us, "In the world you will have tribulation - but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world".

  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Jesus, Cheer, Mean

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• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  Walter Smith

  Success, Sports, Team

  "Walter Smith says a final goodbye to a troubled Rangers" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Disappointment, Adversity

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• If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be blessed with faith, strength, wisdom and help from others, not only to overcome, but to learn and to grow from those experiences.

  Ronald E. Poelman

  Wisdom, Blessed, Learning

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• He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.51, Chinese University Press

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• The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless.

  Robert Guiscard

  War, Faithful, Band

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