Overcome Quotes

To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

When people are determined they can overcome anything.

Dangers which are warded off and difficulties which are overcome before they reach a crisis are utterly unrecognised.

United wishes and goodwill cannot overcome brute facts.

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.