#overcome

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. ↗

— Les Brown

#come #compelling #enough #hunger #invariably

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#carry #faith #fear #fire #fireman

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. ↗

— Maya Lin

#back #death #eye #face #into

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#been #below #early #early mornings #evenings

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage. ↗

— Manning Marable

#generation #intellectual #leave #out #overcome

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#build #challenge #determined #existed #goal

I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#also #am #competitiveness #confident #crisis

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. ↗

— Plautus

#inclination #overcome #reason #rejoice #you

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ↗

— Plutarch

#little #many #more #overcome #perseverance

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#aircraft #allowing #crews #does #four