Overcoming Quotes

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller

Suffering, Full

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

Suffering, Full, Although

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Acceptance, Step, Happened

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer

Strength, Adversity, Obstacles

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Acceptance, Step, Happened

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Adversity, Means, Fresh

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

Greater, Glory, Obstacle

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi

Self, Grace, Christ

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

Best, Insecurity, Self

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
Matthew Fox

Beauty, Healing, Here

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
Bono

Dad, Today, Made

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.
Andre Agassi

Challenge, Face, Obstacles

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
Joe Wright

Happy, Bad, Dark

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.
Diablo Cody

Women, Hope, Experience

'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.
Jason Reitman

Life, Love, True

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
Matt Groening

Love, Emotional, Families

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
Boris Yeltsin

Work, Crisis, Hard

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

Hope, War, Courage

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
Laura Wilkinson

Nothing, Feels, Scares

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Bill Bradley

Great, Sports, Important

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
Vince Cable

Become, Growth, Seriously

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
Reese Witherspoon

Fear, Film, Accomplish

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
Seth Godin

Fear, Smart, Successful

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
Heather Mills

Life, Adversity, Constant

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Important, Confidence, Problem

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
Ben Stiller

Funny, Time, Good

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney

Success, Fear, True

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.
Joe Slovo

Important, Place, Opinion

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
Malcolm Fraser

Far, Face, Behind

I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.
Hoda Kotb

After, Become, Talk

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