Overcomes Quotes

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Love, Peace, Power

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

Self, Him, Victory

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller

Success, Nature, Almost

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats

Joy, Knows, Obstacles

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats

Beauty, Great, Sense

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Andre Gide

Working, Away, Often

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden

Work, Hard, Luck

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
John Milton

Half, Force, Overcome

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
Christopher Reeve

Someone, Doubt, Hero

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
Nikki Giovanni

Writer, Authority, Reader

Fame overcomes everything.
Britt Ekland

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
Ulrich Beck

Religion, Society, Basic

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
Leopold Von Ranke

Eyes, Before, Himself

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
Jeff Vandermeer

Music, Character, Trying

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.
Stephen Dillane

Character, Give, Often

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