Quotes on Overcoming

No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity

The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.

As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.