Overcome Quotes - page 3

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. (T Bone Burnett)
I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back. View quote
Tatum O'Neal
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union. View quote
Rollo May
We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on. View quote
Heinrich Rohrer
The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
A man has four natural enemies: fear, clarity, power, and old age. Fear, clarity and power can be overcome, but not old age. Its effect can be postponed, but it can never be overcome. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness. View quote
Ernest Mandel
The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified. View quote
Helen Suzman
Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Church and State should be united in the White Man's religion. - Global White Racial Loyalty and Solidarity must be our constant goal. - Race is everything. In order to survive and prosper, the White Race must overcome its five main enemies: Judaism, Christianity, Communism, Liberalism and Nationalism. View quote
Ben Klassen
And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson: and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some! (Gloria Estefan)
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. View quote
George S. Patton
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear. View quote
Emil Cioran
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. View quote
Emil Cioran
My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail. View quote
George W. Bush
In Blue Crush, we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions. View quote
Roger Ebert
... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent. View quote
David Gemmell
When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil. View quote
David Gemmell
The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ. View quote
Julian of Norwich
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. (W. Clement Stone)
Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart. View quote
Edith Wharton
Make love your weapon to overcome any evil. View quote
Michael Jackson
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard. View quote
Napoleon Hill