Overcome Quotes - page 7

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. (Beverley Nichols)
So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming. View quote
Bjorn Lomborg
I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome. View quote
Bo Derek
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side. View quote
Bob Riley
Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!' View quote
Brendon Burchard
What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear. View quote
Brian Weiss
But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best. View quote
Barry Bonds
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome. View quote
Cai Guo-Qiang
For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that. View quote
Chaz Bono
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds. View quote
Camryn Manheim
I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job. (Criss Angel)
It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career. View quote
Carlton Fisk
You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life. View quote
Dave Winfield
I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded. View quote
David Allan Coe
To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled. View quote
Dale Murphy
In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working. View quote
Devon Aoki
I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change. View quote
Dominique Moceanu
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. View quote
Dorothy Height
You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that. View quote
Duane Chapman
It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft. View quote
Dave Reichert
When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work. (Elizabeth Garrett Anderson)
To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from. View quote
Elliott Yamin
I overcame size with mechanics. View quote
Edwin Moses
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. View quote
Florence Kelley
For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it. View quote
Georges St-Pierre