The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
Keith Miller

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.
Lynn Davies

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Andre Gide

There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
Ed Smith

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.
Fred Durst

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
Pierre Corneille

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.
Mitt Romney

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Beverley Nichols

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
Peter McWilliams

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Christopher Lasch

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Norman Vincent Peale

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

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can overcome evil with greater good.
Laura Bush

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung