The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Woodrow Wilson

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
Katherine Graham

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
Donald Norman

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
Arthur Helps

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao Tzu

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

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