Top Overcome Quotes
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
Robert Towne
The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
Jack Brymer
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Rosa Parks
Arthur Helps 
Booker T. Washington 
Kelsey Grammer 
Golda Meir 
Albert Einstein 
Thomas Kempis 
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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
Sam Donaldson 
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There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.
Fred Durst
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One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.
Markus Wolf
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The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.
Herschel Walker
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The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift
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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.
Gordie Howe
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach
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I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?
Michael Nyman
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Ralph Waldo EmersonSamuel JohnsonAlbert EinsteinFrancis BaconGeorge SantayanaEmile M. CioranArthur SchopenhauerLao TzuTheodore RooseveltPierre Corneille Confucius VirgilHelen KellerJonathan SwiftAlbert Schweitzer
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