Quotessence
Home / Topics / Overcoming Quotes

Overcoming Quotes

Browse 2718 quotes about Overcoming.

Related topics

IfsPeopleObstaclesWayMenThinkingWorldDifficultyChallengesProblemKnowsHelpingGivingNeedsWantHumansAdversityTryingHardMayInspirationalBelieveMeanMindOvercoming FearSelfEvilHeartFirstsShouldStrongStrugglePersonsFacesFeelingsForceStillsPainDoeEnoughFeelsKindMatterChristEnemyHas BeensMomentsOvercoming AdversityDesireImportantFightingLongAbleCharacterMotivationalEndsGoalLifeRealSufferingUseAbilityLightStoriesChildrenDifficultSinLooksSometimesWellsYearsDoneLife IsStrongerWinningFactsSpiritWeaknessMadeOpportunityShowsWritingFearReasonSituationJesusLittlesOrderRealityTwoActionChristianHappensNaturalSaidLyingSoulAchieveCertainDifferentmore

Overcoming Quotes

“In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.”

HumansWarLyingPurposeTurnsMilitaryMovementPossibilityElementsOvercomingStrategySurpriseResistanceChiefsDiminishTacticsProvincesHuman Will
Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
Create image

“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.”

ShouldDesireEnemyMastersDemandWeaknessOvercomingResistanceAbsurdTriumphThirst
Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Create image

“The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.”

ThinkingMindSoulEffortBehaviorOvercomingPatternsObstaclesResistanceImpulseAtmosphereRestrictionBrillianceOffspringInsurmountableCreativeness
Author:Eric Hoffer
Create image

“Truly, a command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things; if he would see the scales of obedience properly trimmed. From orders which are improper, springs resistance, which is not easily overcome.”

IfsMenOrderSpringOvercomingScalesResistanceCommandObedienceReasonableSugar
Book:The Pentamerone, Or the Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor
Create image

“Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.”

PeopleCoursesLostPowerfulConditionsEventsRedOvercomingHotIndividualityBlowBoundariesResistanceIronSpheresMetalsSheetsHammersIdenticalSteamIrritationReflexesCubesInexorableRed Hot
Book:History of the Russian Revolution
Create image

“The key to overcoming resistance to change is to frame your actions and continually adjust them as you move forward to so that those who might be affected by any changes see them as useful and beneficial for them. This isn't as hard as it sounds. You just have to be vigilant in paying attention to how you're influencing the lives of people who matter.”

PeopleMatterHardMightActionMovingSoundAttentionInfluenceKeysOvercomingResistanceMoving ForwardPay AttentionAffectedBeneficialVigilantResistance To Change
Author:Stewart D. Friedman
Create image

“One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.”

PeopleWayNeedsIdeasHelpingProcessLeadershipCommonGroupsCommunicationLogicOvercomingResistanceDiscussionReportsEducatePresentationOne On OneResistance To ChangeMemos
Book:John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do
Create image

“Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.”

PassionEnergyPrideFameAmbitionOvercomingDifficultyPerseveranceResistanceEncountersProportionPersevere
Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
Create image

“How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.”

MenInspirationalIndividualNationsFreedomEffortStepsFiveDangerTypeCostHighestOvercomingTyrannyResistanceThresholdFree ManServitude
Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
Create image