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Letter "O" » overcome
«One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
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«Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.»
«The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.»
Author: Jack Brymer
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Music
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«Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Nature
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«I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
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«I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.»
«Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.»
«The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Experience
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«There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.»
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