#overcome

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#beings #courage #gain #great #great qualities

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. ↗

— Nile Rodgers

#critic #hardest #i #i think #judging

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#everything #made #many #may #necessity

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ↗

— Helen Keller

#experience #half #hour #human #human experience

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#any #below #bodies #body #continual

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#enjoyed #given #got #life #no doubt

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#buy #i #just #me #overcome

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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