One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Elie Wiesel

Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
Wayne Coyne

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Lucille Roybal-Allard

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

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Rosa Parks

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher

Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!
Buddy Ebsen

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
Thomas Otway

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.
Bjorn Lomborg

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Ben Stein

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel Johnson

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
George Foreman

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
Jack Brymer

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.
Jayne Meadows

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
Daniel Goleman