Quotes About Overcome

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!

I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man.

You can't let a man like this beat you.

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

It is not the obstacles that is the mountainbut it is our lack of knowledge of how to deal with the obstacles and how to overcome it

I have so much health problems, but I believe I could still make it through.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.