Overcoming Quotes - Page 32

• That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Cowardice, Incorrigible

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.34

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• Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

  John Lyly

  Women, Reason, Fortune

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.70, Manchester University Press

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• Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Life, Wise, Selfish

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• Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other words, something had to be in it for him. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness. Taking up one's cross and following the Savior means overcoming selfishness; it is a commitment to serve others. Selfishness is one of the baser human traits, which must be subdued and overcome. We torture our souls when we focus on getting rather than giving.

  James E. Faust

  Selfish, Lying, Father

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• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

  Laozi

  Acting, World, Action

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• Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

  Tommy Franks

  Focus, Anxiety, Attention

  "Interview With U.S. Commander". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com.

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• If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

  Laozi

  People, Perception, Want

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• The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

  Thomas Adams

  Peace, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Adams (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.728

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• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Meaningful, Determination, Lying

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  Francis Beaumont

  Friendship, Silence, Noble

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• Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, Littles, Bullets

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• One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Compassion, Hatred

  Dalai Lama XIV (2002). “Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama”

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• We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sympathy, Wise, Emotional

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• To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation. Intuition is a neutral from of information that allows you to soberly gauge the validity of your worries. If you tune in and find out they're unfounded, you'll be relieved. If they are founded, you can develop a strategy to deal with them.

  Judith Orloff

  Worry, Intuition, Agitation

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• Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

  Thomas Otway

  Clouds, Shining, Tears

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• The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

  Eric Hoffer

  Ideas, Links, Steps

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• I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Courage, Time

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• Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Success, Perseverance, Goal

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• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

  John Dewey

  Success, Perseverance, Humility

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• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Success, Perseverance, Men

  Interview in "How They Succeeded" by Orison Swett Marden, Chapter 2, 1901.

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• If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

  Muhammad Yunus

  Focus, Credit, Poverty

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2015

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• Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sweet, Victory, Next

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.62

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• It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

  A. C. Benson

  Helping, Sometimes, Trouble

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• We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot be overcome without help. The tragic pattern is so familiar. It begins with curiosity that is fueled by its stimulation and is justified by the false premise that when done privately, it does no harm to anyone else. For those lulled by this lie, the experimentation goes deeper, with more powerful stimulations, until the trap closes and a terribly immoral, addictive habit exercises its vicious control.

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, Lying, Exercise

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