(391 quotes found)
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
Werner von Braun
“When a just cause reaches its flood tide - whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power”
Carrie Chapman Catt
“Still, I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”
Louis Nizer
“Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you”
Marian Anderson
“The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.”
Hannah Arendt
“Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Desmond Tutu
“Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.”
Idries Shah
“The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.”
Washington Irving
