#overcome

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#articulate #being #confidence #deeply #how

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#end #gain #know #later #overcome

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

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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#any #anything #attitude #because #before

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#appear #however #insurmountable #may #mysterious

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#bad #bad luck #being #born #determination

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. ↗

— Leopold Von Ranke

#divine #eyes #go #himself #into

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#aircraft #allowing #crews #does #four

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

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