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Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and what has already happened. We must believe that we can make choices and that those choices can alter the future.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Chosing to stay in the moment, is choosing to be free from fear.

Climate change is not about climate change. It's about the people in it getting rich off of an ever-expanding, growing, controlling government. It's all about expanding the government and government control over people. It's about creating victims. When you successfully turn somebody into a victim, you have automatically made them a dependent on you. You are essentially telling them they have lost the power necessary to solve their own problems. And you create within them a mentality that they can't overcome their own problem because they're victims.

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.

Courage is caution overcome.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage.

Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together." I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words.

Doubt is probably the biggest obstacle to overcome. Once you rise above doubt, you are on your way to success.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Dream and don't ask too many questions, or fear will overcome your feelings.

did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking

Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.

Don't let any obstacle stop you. Always remember that you have spiritual and mental qualities within you that can overcome even the seemingly impossible.

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.

Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences.

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.

Every person has their own unique circumstances to overcome, but every single person has the opportunity to achieve anything - and change everything.

Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason." "What reason?" "That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.

Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.