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I overcame size with mechanics. -- Edwin Moses
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness. -- Kurt Masur
Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them. -- Richard Bach
Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore. -- Melissa Etheridge
And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh. -- Paul Merton
I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded. -- David Allan Coe
Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome. -- Bruce Feiler
The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences. -- Evander Holyfield
I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician. -- Nicholson Baker
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. -- Henry Louis Gates
All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams. -- Carrie Underwood
Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with power, and then I decided to take that direction because I knew that would make me feel good about myself. -- Lou Ferrigno
My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion. -- Safra A. Catz
I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success. -- Holt McCallany
Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant. -- Bow Wow
I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it. -- Aaron Levie
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made. -- Margaret Thatcher
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news. -- Susan Orlean
If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt. -- Bruce Feiler
The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer from our sins. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I know if I react, and I want to get mad, and emotions come to the surface, I think quickly of my friends who have died and how they overcame their struggle and used their cancer and their lives for the betterment of mankind, and it sets me back in place. -- Justin Baldoni
I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine. -- Alison Sweeney
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them. -- Michael Eric Dyson
To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace. -- Ariel Sharon
Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with tangled legs; they never thought I'd be able to dance... without knowing it, as a child I overcame a lot thanks to really doting, loving parents and a great family and a hard work ethic on my part. -- Lindsay Pearce
I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not. -- Tracy Morgan
I feel I overcame something pretty great. -- Jc Caylen
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. -- Jonas Salk
My will to live completely overcame my desire to win -- Alfred Hajos
He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. -- Michael Lewis
I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood. -- Thalia
Today I finally overcame tryin' to fit the world inside a picture frame. -- John Mayer
A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them. -- Brandon Sanderson
I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities. -- Kate Winslet
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution. -- Helene Hanff
In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame. -- Carolyn R. Dimmick
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before. -- Shinzo Abe
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. -- James Reston, Jr.
We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it. -- Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth. -- Plutarch
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. -- Saint Augustine
Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name. -- Chris Oyakhilome
I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking. -- Arthur Jones
People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away. -- Jim Abbott
Reagan, people claimed, was too old to run for president and to be elected. But he proved himself such a vigorous campaigner in the primary system that he overcame those beliefs. -- Geoffrey Cowan
I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special. -- Jamel Shabazz
Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE. -- S. Truett Cathy
London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body. -- Lynda Bellingham
He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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