#overcome

It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It's hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#care #first #get #give #group

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

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#aroused #carrying #definite #enthusiasm #first

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

#because #difficult #ever #had #hardest

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way. ↗

— Laura Wilkinson

#battle #because #been #big #blocked

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#fans #given #i #me #much

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#give #indifferent #life #meaning #obligation

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#knows #labours #obstacles #overcomes #triumph

The sun rises bright and beautiful as if it feels no pain. It must not see, it must not hear, it can't possibly or it would not be able to overcome so defiantly. My bed creaks and whines when I leave it behind. I don't know why it tries so hard to hold onto me but yet I continue to try and overcome. I put on my shirt, my pants that fit me, find my socks and glue my heel back to my boot. My gloves are lost, my coat is torn but my scarf still keeps me warm and so I continue to try and overcome. Work has no pride, no place for me but I have no other place to be. My broken dreams continue to rise, my hopes continue to fade but still I try to overcome. A broken window and a gas tank on E, it's not Friday so I have to walk each day for at least another three. And so I walk while the world cries and pleas and tries to swallow me but still I continue and try to overcome. My lock on my door only turns halfway, but I don't have anything to steal anyway. My fridge is bare but my cabinet still holds three so I continue to try and overcome. The news haunts me, the weather threatens to rain down on me but another day has gone by. And I have overcome, I have overcome … I have overcome - the sun has nothing on me. ↗

— Jennifer Loren

#pain #poem #beauty

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. ↗

— Dorothy Height

#goals #greatness #his #man #measured