Best overcoming & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.”

Thinking Way Trying Years Wells Bigs My Own Crazy Balance Overcoming Profession My Way Insecurity Midst Hurdle

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.”

Ifs Thinking Way Life Giving Mind Heart Balance Overcoming Live Life Behave Right Thing Right Way Good Place

Author:Alexis Arguello

“Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.”

Thinking Should Self Action Ability Self Esteem Overcoming Self Confidence Esteem Delusion

Author:Shantideva

“I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.”

Thinking Giving Mean Character Actors Behinds Attention Creating Standing Overcoming Terror Convinced Phrases Mask Standing There

Author:Stephen Dillane

“Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we succeed. Those that maintain faith, stay committed, follow through and keep moving forward are the few that achieve everything they want in life. Be one of the few.”

“All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.”

Thinking Way Mind Humans Important Desire Suffering Human Beings Meditation Training Overcoming Innate Finding Happiness Training The Mind

Author:Dalai Lama

“Every good that you do, every good that you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.”

Thinking Evil Forever Goodness Overcoming Remains Very Good Cease Good Thoughts Vibrate

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How many happened to you alone? I bet there are very few. When you understand that being connected to others is one of life's greatest joys, you realize that life's best comes when you initiate and invest in solid relationships.”

Thinking Important Motivational Joy Realizing Happened Victory Highest Overcoming Obstacles Connected Initiate Greatest Victory

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.”

Thinking Real Opportunity Wealth Effort Poverty Materials Achievement Overcoming Mere Acknowledge Disgrace

Book:The History of the Peloponnesian War

Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War

“Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.”

Thinking Giving Important Ego Yoga Overcoming Karma Unhappy Selfless Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.”

Thinking Littles Real Might Fighting Courses Term Growing Progress Overcoming Developing Surprising Unwilling Idiosyncrasies

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.”

Thinking Life Is Challenges Creative Overcoming Exciting Boxes

Author:Courteney Cox

“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.”

Thinking Mind Soul Effort Behavior Overcoming Patterns Obstacles Resistance Impulse Atmosphere Restriction Brilliance Offspring Insurmountable Creativeness

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I guess most of us would rather not discuss cancer because we are all afraid we might be told we have it. It's hard for people to even say the word, and that's the first obstacle you have to overcome when you are diagnosed with the disease. I think once you understand a little more about it ... I don't mean it gets any easier ... but I think you give it more in-depth thought about how you're going to deal with it.”

People Thinking Giving Firsts Mean Littles Hard Might Deals Easier Disease Overcoming Depth Cancer Obstacles

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.”

Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

“As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.”

Thinking Whole Names Process Overcoming Sight

Author:Milton Resnick

“If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded research like I have, if I've raised millions of dollars like I have, and yet there was one patient out there who was unhappy, I think it's a price that you pay. The good would overcome that one bit of bad.”

Ifs Thinking Done Bits Pay Brain Millions Research Overcoming Dollars Raised Patient Unhappy Satisfied Having Fun Right Thing

Author:Charles Teo

“Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Fighting Evil Community Powerful Overcoming Oppression Redemption Liberation Weed Reggae Really Powerful Reggae Music Music And Love Fighting Evil

Author:Conor Oberst

“I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.”

People Thinking Should Children Form Poverty Violence Creating Racism Overcoming Spending Evolve Sexism Homophobia

Author:Eve Ensler

“The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.”

People Thinking Way Hard Stories Beautiful Life Is Strong Interesting Alive Strength Havens Overcoming Tragedy Good Things Amazed Gorgeous Stunned

Author:Sarah Polley

“As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.”

“I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.”

Thinking World Giving Years Littles Evil Sides Compassion Forever Grace Our Lives Effects Changed Overcoming Complicated Cruelty Hopefully Side Effects Overcoming Evil

Author:Adam Rapp

“I would never discredit anyone that is working their way up on a show like "American Idol." I think they work so hard overcoming all of the obstacles to get on the show in the first place and then every week they are judged in front of all of America... I give them complete credit for getting up on stage... I think they deserve all the success that they get.”

Thinking Way Giving Firsts Hard Shows America Week Stage Fronts Deserve Overcoming Obstacles Credit Judged Idols Discredit American Idol

Author:Mandy Moore

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Should Real Grows Teach Overcoming Difficulty About Yourself Forgive Yourself

Author:Maya Angelou

“Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.”

Thinking Winning Difficult Challenges Issues Overcoming New Challenges

Author:Yani Tseng

“Every time you lose, you think that life's unfair. You think of the bad breaks. But when you're winning and playing well, you still get those bad breaks, only you overcome them. It just depends on how strong your mind is.”

Thinking Mind Wells Stills Winning Strong Loses Break Depends Overcoming Unfair

Author:Greg Norman

“I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.”

Thinking Culture Happened Overcoming Defeat Following Decades Canada Confederation

Author:Stephen Harper

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Firsts May Real Death Evil Natural Loss Acting Ought Sorrow Illusion Gains Overcoming Errors Separation Evident Weeping Happier Life

Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater

“Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.”

Thinking Men May Made Reality Language Progress Thousand Overcoming Tongue Internals Wiser

Author:E.D. Baker

“Take 15 minutes daily, thinking of pleasant scenarios regarding your body, with the sole intent of enjoying your body and appreciating its strength and stamina and flexibility and beauty. When you visualize for the joy of visualizing rather than with the intention of correcting some deficiency, your thoughts are more pure and, therefore, more powerful. When you visualize to overcome something that is wrong, your thoughts are diluted with the "lackful" side of the equation. In time, your physical condition will acquiesce to your dominant thoughts.”

“I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, "Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest." This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.”

Ifs Thinking Light Guy Christ Figures New York Please Crosses Overcoming Smoke Reaching Guests Unseen This Guy Cab

Author:Bill Hicks

“I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So, overcoming those challenges and really discovering characters that aren't like me helps me grow, as a person and as an artist.”

Thinking Persons Important Character Helping Artist Grows Challenges Overcoming Important Things Like Me Help Me Discovering Not Happy

Author:Ksenia Solo

“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

“I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.”

People Thinking Talking Havens Overcoming

Author:Marc Maron

“The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes Able Enemy Worst Havens Battle Overcoming Obstacles Worst Enemy Love Myself I Love Myself Loving Myself Biggest Obstacles

Author:Mike Epps

“Probably the only thing that isn't great is the time when I know I'm very close to finishing the actual writing of the story and I'm overcome by this sense of loss. I think it's because I know I won't be "talking" to the main character anymore, it's sort of like what you feel when you know a friend is moving away and you probably won't be seeing her again.”

Thinking Knows Feels Writing Character Stories Moving Loss Talking Seeing Overcoming Finishing Main Characters Moving Away

Author:Christopher Paul Curtis

“If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Stills Enough Pain Causes Acting Trouble Positive Thinking Negative Overcoming Positive Thoughts Somewhere Else Negative Thoughts Incoherence

Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“We pray Thee, O Christ, to keep us under the spell of immortality. My we never again think and act as if Thou were dead. Let us more and more come to know Thee as a living Lord who hath promised to them that believe: "Because I live, ye shall live also." Help us to remember that we are praying to the Conqueror of Death, that we may no longer be afraid nor dismayed by the world's problems and threats, since Thou hast overcome the world. In Thy strong name, we ask for Thy living presence and Thy victorious power. Amen.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Life Believe May Helping Problem Remember Asks Names Belief Strong Christ Lord Praying Overcoming Threat Thee Immortality Spells Conqueror Amen Dismayed

Author:Peter Marshall

“There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mean Matter Use Might Science Values Understanding Sound Study Overcoming Let Me Difficulty Infinite Pursuit Small Parts Expenditures

Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.”

Thinking Believe Body Kids Jobs Parent Emotion Wife Missing Events Husband Overcoming Accounts Responsible Boss Bullets Stressful Your Husband Bank Accounts Husband Wife Stressful Life

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.”

Thinking May Littles Difficult Challenges Deals Dangerous Mountain Overcoming Satisfaction Enjoyment Climbs

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.”

Thinking Character Guy Overcoming Meetings Enormous Setting Settings Odds Amnesia

Author:Danny Boyle

“And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Running Faces Directors Overcoming Running Away Initials

Author:Takashi Miike

“I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.”

Thinking World Way Loss Hero Overcoming Abandoned Constructs

Author:Susan Orlean

“I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.”

People Thinking Trying Years Stills Important Today Overcoming Prejudice Yesterday

Author:Joe Wright

“I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Kind Important Care Balance Opposites Overcoming Performers

Author:Erin Davie

“You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”

Thinking Facts Attitude Overcoming Positive Attitude Best Attitude Keep A Positive Attitude Life Attitude Great Positive Attitude

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.”

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