Overwhelmed Quotes

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself, Lonely, Struggle

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo

Good, Feeling, Learned

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Jackie Kennedy

Sadness, Oneself

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og Mandino

Life, Success, Power

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

Fear, Why, Reason

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
Nigella Lawson

Life, Others, Anxiety

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
John H. Johnson

Dreams, Confidence, Small

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.
Justin Timberlake

Love, Girl, Handle

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Power, End, Act

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Livy

Humble, Greatness, Since

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.
Dee Dee Myers

Time, Him, Optimism

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler

Change, Future, Capacity

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
Caroline Kennedy

God, Poetry, Sad

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.
Brandy Norwood

Meet, Cried, Jackson

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
Dave Chappelle

Funny, Felt, Encouraged

I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.
Marissa Mayer

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.
Sean Parker

Power, Problem, Biggest

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
Florence Welch

Beautiful, Real, Seen

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.
Anna Kendrick

Character, Air, Ambitious

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
Carl Hiaasen

Country, America, Around

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.
Sandra Lee

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
Albrecht Durer

God, Opinion, Artist

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
Brit Marling

Women, Movies, Film

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.
Julian Assange

Mean, Enough, Problem

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
Anne Campbell

Campaign, Response, Doorstep

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
John Boyd Orr

Great, War, Science

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
Kevin Kelly

Nature, Enough, Become

Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!
LeAnn Rimes

Blessed, Lovely, Wishes

I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
Randy Moss

Time, Same, Star

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.
David Ben-Gurion

Time, Give, Suffering

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