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Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

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.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit.

Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.

Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where everybody improves, not where just the elite improve and the others get worse.

Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

Sometimes the tasks we take on seem virtually impossible. But amazingly, when we harness the incredible power of the subconscious in our lives, we can accomplish whatever we set out to do, no matter what obstacles we have to overcome.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

Stillness overcomes heat.

Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting them as they really are.

Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.

Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.