#overcome

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#coping #difficulties #mountain #mountains #obstacle

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#else #father #felt #firmly #i

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career. ↗

— Carlton Fisk

#career #defines #overcome #you #your

That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles. ↗

— Jon Heder

#hard #obstacles #overcome #protagonists #work

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#any #did #father #fill #his

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis. ↗

— Trent Lott

#anything #eventually #folks #founded #free

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#continually #debate #filibuster #issue #just

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling. ↗

— Fred Durst

#because #comes #could #feeling #get

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#faced #great #impregnable #jefferson #lincoln

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#ability #against #character #feelings #forgive