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

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
Robert Towne

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.
Markus Wolf

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 here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
Jesse Jackson

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

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.
Howard Dean