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Overcoming challenges purifies you like gold to become bold. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself. -- Alfred Adler
Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams. -- John Katzenbach
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. -- Moliere
Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle. -- Gautama Buddha
Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. -- Helen Keller
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. -- Nelson Mandela
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. -- Mary Tyler Moore
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. -- Albert Schweitzer
Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path. -- Dalai Lama
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. -- Seth Godin
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. -- William James
Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life -- Scott Jurek
Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. -- Steven Pinker
Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength. -- Laozi
Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success. -- Wayne Huizenga
Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming. -- Mumia Abu-Jamal
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make. -- Chase Jarvis
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today. -- Bono
Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with courage, each struggle with accomplishment, and each challenge with victory. -- Lorna Jackie Wilson
Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long. -- Geoff Johns
Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger. -- Charlie Kimball
Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action. -- Shantideva
Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to. -- Robert Anthony
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . . -- Nelson Mandela
Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us. -- Watchman Nee
Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality. -- Kilian Jornet
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life."[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005] -- Nelson Mandela
Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less. -- Kathleen McDonald
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. -- Steven Pinker
Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect. -- John P. Kotter
My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward. -- Mercedes McCambridge
Overcoming one of my limiting beliefs, "girls are not as strong as men, therefore we cannot attempt the same physical challenges." I can tell you, with all certainty, this is not true. I have accomplished things on skis no one thought were physically possible for females. -- Lynsey Dyer
Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. -- Angela Merkel
Be carefree yet careful: While you should work on overcoming unnecessary worrying, have a healthy fear of danger and sensibly guard yourself from harm. Overcoming worry does not mean putting yourself in danger, but in having a calm attitude in dealing with difficulties and accepting what cannot be changed. -- Zelig Pliskin
We acquire the strength we have overcome. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. -- Matt Groening
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. -- W. Clement Stone
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. -- Aristotle
We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles. -- Stephen Covey
A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth. -- David Stockman
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. -- George S. Patton
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. -- Lou Holtz
Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass. -- Marianne Williamson
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. -- Elie Wiesel
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. -- George Santayana
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. -- Andre Gide
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. -- Bill Bradley
Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area. -- Joyce Meyer
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. -- Dan Millman
. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed. -- Edward Kasner
Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. -- Stephen Covey
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. -- Booker T. Washington
Do you realize that your life at this very moment is the result of everything that you have ever thought , done , believed , or felt up until now ? You can start right now to consciously and deliberately attract whatever you desire in this lifetime. -- Jack Canfield
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. -- Paul Sweeney
We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something. -- Marta
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness. -- Herbie Hancock
I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself. -- Drew Carey
The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs. -- Sarah MacLean
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. -- Francis of Assisi
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. -- Stephen Covey
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind. -- Paul Rand
Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action. -- Rory Vaden
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about. -- Henry Bessemer
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. -- Natalie Dormer
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. -- Bruce Feiler
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. -- Haile Selassie
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form. -- Neil Postman
The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so. -- David A. Bednar
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren. -- Kathleen Battle
I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. -- Tom Hooper
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. -- Regina Brett
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. -- Edmund Hillary
I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything. -- Rebecca De Mornay
I love overcoming challenges and fear. -- Laura Wilkinson
My humanity is a constant self-overcoming. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing. -- Robert H. Schuller
The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful. -- Bertrand Russell
Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos. -- I. A. Richards
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats. -- Che Guevara
I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag. -- William Gurstelle
Mastering your fears is the craft of overcoming them. -- Gladys Adevey
SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles. -- Philip Larkin
Faith and perseverance is the key to overcoming obstacles. -- Lorna Jackie Wilson
The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. -- bell hooks
I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. -- Lou Holtz
Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them. -- Randy Gage
Success is overcoming obstacles on the way to your dreams, -- Karl Mecklenburg
The overcoming power is God's; the overcoming privilege is ours! -- Jack W. Hayford
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method -- Colin Powell
If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations. -- Richie Norton
The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men. -- Lynn G. Robbins
Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves. -- David Belle
It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs. -- P.D. Ouspensky
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. -- L. Ron Hubbard
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. -- Lurlene McDaniel
Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them. -- Meher Baba
Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change. -- Atul Gawande
In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones. -- Joyce Meyer
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness. -- Martin Luther
There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better. -- Laura Wilkinson
Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views. -- Sharon Begley
Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative. -- Ralph Marston
A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them. -- Brian Tracy
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. -- Alex Lowe
The more challenging the obstacles in life, the greater the satisfaction in overcoming them. -- Murad S. Shah
By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate. -- John Templeton
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. -- Malcolm Fraser
Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer. -- Mark Twight
You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. -- Helen Keller
The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next. -- Daisaku Ikeda

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