#overcome

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. ↗

— Les Brown

#come #compelling #enough #hunger #invariably

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#carry #faith #fear #fire #fireman

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#better #better person #blame #else #had

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#banality #endless #erected #order #overcome

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. ↗

— Maya Lin

#back #death #eye #face #into

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#been #below #early #early mornings #evenings

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#ability #against #character #feelings #forgive

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#american dream #away #before #came #challenges

We can overcome evil with greater good. ↗

— Laura Bush

#good #greater #overcome

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. ↗

— John Calvin

#even #fear #midst #minds #never