(374 quotes found)
“Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.”
Thornton T. Munger
“Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
Theodore N. Vail
“This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.”
William James
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Take heednever take advantage of the things you neednever let yourself be overcome by greedwalk the straight and narrow and you shall succeed.”
Shaggy
“I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.”
Czeslaw Milosz
“What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it”
Virgil
“When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.”
Proverb
“The light of knowledge is fully capable of destroying the darkness of ignorance. This also help us in overcoming all the difficulties and in achieving success in all our endeavors.”
Sam Veda