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“...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.”

Persons Enough Character Seems Might Able Fall Opportunity Numbers Records Overcoming Encouragement Perseverance Obstacles Contribution Teamwork Collaboration Risen

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“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.”

Writing Looks Lasts Fall Steps Pieces Sky Paper Overcoming Something New Territory Blank Last Time New You

Author:William Zinsser

“The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.”

Ends Faces Joy Fall Steps Feet Baby Overcoming Patterns Triumph Flats Encouraging Sofas Bewildered

Author:Pam Brown

“To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.”

Thinking Knows Children Past Fall Asks Speak Sin Teach Regret Overcoming Prejudice Our Children Forgiving Intolerance Stereotype

Author:Beth Moore

“Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You run into roadblocks and barriers. You overcome obstacles. You fall down. I mean you have to fall down to learn to stand up.”

Ifs Men Mean Long Enough Running Fall Mistake Overcoming Obstacles Making Mistakes Barriers Falling Down Roadblock

Author:Chuck Ragan

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”

Men Humans Made Sometimes Action Fall Natural Justice Human Beings Inspiring Poverty Generations Greatness Tasks Overcoming Slavery Charity Humanitarian Apartheid

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.”

People Mean Sometimes Fall Worry Seeing Overcoming Worried Jeans Falling Down

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.”

Source: Perfect

“And this is a kiss like none before, a kiss that could overcome the dark of deep space night. It's a falling star, flame, ice. It's pure as water from a snow-fed mountain spring. This is what you dream a kiss to be. To have a kiss just like this each and every day! How satisfying life would be.”

Dream Would Be Night Fall Stars Water Dark Space Pure Mountain Kissing Spring Overcoming Snow Ice Flames Feds Satisfying Deep Space

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.”

Ifs Knows Giving Self Hands Happiness Fall Loses Records Serious Amount Despair Giving Up Overcoming Temptation Etc Temper Offended Impatience Annoyance Upper Hand Petulance

Author:C. S. Lewis

“One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.”

Men Faces Time Fall Wind Overcoming Adversity Trials Lifts Height Yield One Man One Time Inches Chill Kites

Author:David O. McKay

“We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those to come back even stronger. That's what makes it sweeter, when we can overcome those and figure out a way to win. The great teams can do that, and those are the gold medal winning teams.”

Way Use Fall Winning Can Do Loss Team Figures Gold Overcoming Stronger Defeat Painful Bitter Medal Volleyball Gold Medals Great Team Winning Team

Author:Karch Kiraly

“I had to overcome many things, many people telling me no. If you want it, and you believe in it, you have to do it. And I know it’s silly, and I know I’m kind of irrationally optimistic, but you have to be and you can’t really have another plan, because you’re going to fall back on it.”

People Ifs Knows Want Believe Kind Fall Plans Overcoming Silly Optimistic Fall Back

Author:Crystal Reed

“You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired.”

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Author:Ken Field

“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.”

Real Self Fall Energy Subjects Expression Overcoming Cameras Visible Muscles Mask Gravity Limbs Snaps Facial Real Self

Book:The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman : a Retrospective Collection of Images from the Photographer's Studio, to be Sold by Public Auction, Friday, November 13, 1981, at 7:00 P.m. at Harris Auction Galleries

Source: The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman : a Retrospective Collection of Images from the Photographer's Studio, to be Sold by Public Auction, Friday, November 13, 1981, at 7:00 P.m. at Harris Auction Galleries

“Not only does the Atonement of Jesus Christ overcome the effects of the Fall of Adam and make possible the remission of our individual sins and transgressions, but His Atonement also enables us to do good and become better in ways that stretch far beyond our mortal capacities.”

Way Doe Fall Jesus Individual Christ Sin Effects Jesus Christ Capacity Overcoming Mortals Adam Atonement Transgression Remission

Author:David A. Bednar

“Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.”

Source: Yanni in Words