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Quotes About Overcome

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
~ Virginia Woolf
And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased her. But it was not the body; it was the soul and its mockery that she wished to subdue; make feel her mastery.
~ Virginia Woolf
Death, he had said on another occasion, seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
really, what a strange man he is, thought klara, with that aching feeling of loneliness which always overcomes us when someone dear to us surrenders to a daydream in which we have no place.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
There is very little bad from which good cannot be pressed.
~ Laura Anne Gilman
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
But I do know about fear. I've faced it, more than once. That's what one has to do with fear, by the way. Face it and defeat it because you can't ever run far enough or fast enough to escape from it.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.
~ Lauren Weisberger
You gotta dig deep to rise high.
~ Cecil Williams
Once she was behind, how could she catch up?
~ Celeste Ng
Then you have to apply a technique or antidote to overcome it.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
~ Chanakya
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
~ Channing Pollock
No statue for the vanquished. (Pas de statue Pour les vaincus)
~ Charles de Leusse
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
~ Charles Dickens
We must scrunch or be scrunched.
~ Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
~ Charles Dickens
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
~ Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.
~ Charles Dickens
But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.
~ Charles Dickens
Courage, dear miss! Courage! Business! The worst will be over in a moment; it is but passing the room-door, and the worst
~ Charles Dickens
We were greatly overcome at parting; and if ever, in my life, I have had a void made in my heart, I had one made that day.
~ Charles Dickens
To be the hero of my life or forever its victim.
~ Charles Dickens
Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt successfully overcame that bad habit of living, so highly desirable to be got rid of by some people.
~ Charles Dickens