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«A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.»
Author: Christopher Reeve
(Activist, Actor, Film Director)
| Keywords:
endure, finds, hero, individual, Obstacles, ordinary, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, persevere, persevered, perseveres, persevering, spite, strength
«Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.»
«We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.»
Author: General George Catlett Marshall
| About:
Determination,
Freedom,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
flag, on the one hand, overwhelming, recognized, symbol, throughout
«It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body - an overwhelming sense of calm...I actually began to feel blessed.»
«There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars...But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too faast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable...It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.»
Author: Kay Jamison
| Keywords:
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«Still, I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds»
«Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
accomplish, against, Against All Odds, and the, at odds, courage, encountered, is not, maintained, measured, measure up, odds, opposition, oppositions, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, struggle, success, The opposition
«I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.»
Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
argued, constancy, firm, ground, overwhelming, stand firm, stressful, with that
«I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Conviction,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
About me, conviction, driven, drive in, from nowhere, had, insufficient, knees, My own, nowhere, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, seemed, times, time of day, wisdom
«Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
apparently, enemy, force, might, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, The Enemy, yield, yield up
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