(374 quotes found)
“I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.”
Les Brown
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
Ben Okri
“Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.”
Matt Groening
“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 R. Covey
“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”
Channing Pollock
“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.”
Sir Walter Scott
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow”
Thomas Paine
“I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.”
Gillian Anderson
“Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
Andre Gide
“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”
St. Francis of Assisi