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“I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.”

Thinking Hard Life Is Fate One Thing Hard Work Overcoming

Author:Richard Petty

“When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.”

People Energy Fate Overcoming Determined Enlightened Taoism Mold Unified

Author:Zicheng Hong

“I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a child born into the lowest classes have to overcome everything put in his or her way to mute that curiosity, when a child born to parents with access to the advantages of life will have his meager curiosity kindled and nurtured? The unfairness is horrifying when it is properly understood as an unfairness meted out on children, on infants, on babies.”

Children Parent Fate Baby Overcoming Curiosity Lowest Infant Unfairness

Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.”

Fate Overcoming Throat

Book:Beethoven's Letters

Source: Beethoven's Letters

“Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

Men Ends Fate Overcoming Bridges Beast Tied Abyss Rope

Book:Unmodern Observations

Source: Unmodern Observations

“The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.”

May Spirit Suffering Evil Destiny Fate Higher Rivers Overcoming Stronger Surprise Sunlight Makes You Stronger

Author:Ben Okri

“Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.”

Source: EPZ Eclipse of Reason

“If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic.”

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Author:Nicholas Meyer