Quotes of Overcome - somelinesforyou

“ Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. ”

- John Milton

“ If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. ”

- George Lois

“ Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ”

- Plutarch

“ Not being beautiful was the true blessing… Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. ”

- Golda Meir

“ The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. ”

- Aristotle

“ Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ Past, and to come, seems best; things present, worst. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ”

- John Keats

“ The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ”

- Bible

“ Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace. ”

- Jimi Hendrix

“ Happy the man, and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who, secure within, can say "Tomorrow, do thy worst For I have lived today.". ”

- John Dryden

“ In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death. ”

- Edna Ferber

“ A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus

“ First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. ”

- Dr. Rob Gilbert

“ Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. ”

- Booker T. Washington

“ No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything. ”

- B. Dodge

“ In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em. ”

- Thomas Otway

“ So many fail because they don't get started — they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ”

- W. Clement Stone

“ Oh! too convincing — dangerously dear — In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! ”

- Lord Byron

“ The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later. ”

- Confucius

“ My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. ”

- Dame Edna Everage

“ You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ”

- George S. Patton

“ Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory. ”

- John Steinbeck
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