Quotes with overcome

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  • Les Brown Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We acquire the strength we have overcome.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carter G. Woodson We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • R. C. Allen We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
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  • Ban Ki-moon We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Hitopadesa What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Les Brown When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Buddha Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • John Milton Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
    Paradise lost (1667)
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • George S. Patton You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Gordie Howe You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Albert Schweitzer One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Helen Keller The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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