Love always overcomes hate.
We have overcome economic devastation, defeated mighty oppressors, and lifted up generation after generation of Americans. We can – and we will – do it again. For that is our birthright as members of the American family – white, black, Hispanic, Asian, immigrant, or descendant of the Founding Fathers themselves.
The wave of feeling that can overcome an adult when he or she opens a book that was read to them by a loved parent or teacher can be quite stunning.
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
In the case of ‘Disobedience,’ the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community has was a huge invitation to explore an unknown world. And also a possible trap, and I tried to overcome that by portraying it, hopefully, with great nuance and detail and texture.
Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers’ natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I’m willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.
I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
Nelson Mandela represents an enduring example of the human spirit and he proved for eternity that the ideals of democracy and human rights can overcome even the direst of circumstances.
That’s what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles.
In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.
I don’t want to live my life to necessarily overcome struggle, but when I am going to hit struggle throughout my life, I face it head on.
As the minister for faith as well as equalities, I’m proud to champion our work with faith leaders to help overcome vaccine hesitancy in mothers from religious and ethnic groups.
I lost my parents, which is the toughest thing to overcome.
I’ve got one grandson gone to MIT. Another grandson had been in the American school here. Because he was dyslexic, and we then didn’t have the teachers to teach him how to overcome or cope with his dyslexia, so he was given exemption to go to the American school. He speaks like an American. He’s going to Wharton.
You can’t take your win for granted. Your next win might be your last win or you might never get to your next win, so I can’t imagine not being overcome with joy by winning and never taking winning for granted.
People know MVP but not many people know the man that became MVP and what I had to go through and overcome to get there.
China is a very big and complicated country; it’s not easy to govern. But with courage and unity, China will certainly overcome all difficulties and continue to develop and move forward.
I’ve wanted to act since I was seven. The year before, I’d been a munchkin in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and was overcome with terror. The next year I just watched. My sister was in ‘The Little Mermaid’ and I had this deep knowing that I needed to be there on stage, not in the audience.
National service can bridge the gap between the social challenges we face and the resources needed to overcome them.
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
I had to overcome the name Rock. If I’d been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.
Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.
Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. ‘Now’ can seem so difficult, and ‘later’ appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.
It’s hard because people often don’t recognise shyness; they think it’s just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I’m meeting my readers at author events, because I don’t want them to think I’m snooty or rude.
As Major League Baseball struggles to overcome its staid image and lure younger fans – according to Nielsen, most of the sport’s TV viewers are over 50 – the simple bat flip has come to symbolize the culture war being waged within its ranks.
The power of storytelling – of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd – remains absolute.
By turning negatives into positives, losing into a journey to winning, I have been able to overcome the odds that were against me into motivation for my success.
While ‘The Help’ is in so many ways a celebration of these women’s friendships and what they overcome, it’s also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads ’em.
Sometimes they are big hurdles, but good players can overcome them. I am trying to do my best.
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he’s had.
I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.
You always have nerves. And it’s important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.
I think I’m not a natural-born salesman, for sure, but If I have a product I really believe in, I can overcome some of the shyness and get through the things that aren’t natural to me.
For Americans living in places like Braddock, I believe the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is perhaps the last, best chance to help overcome the injustice and harm that the decades steeped in a laissez-faire orthodoxy have wrought.
I don’t know how to overcome this perception that I’m extravagant.
Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.
Good men stand against evil and overcome it, in their private lives and in their communities.
When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won’t end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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.
Only by planting trees, we will be able to overcome global warming.
Some friends of Israel believe that the Palestinians will never, in their hearts, accept a Jewish state in Palestine. Yet Germans and French, Chinese and Japanese, Mexicans and Americans have overcome their once insurmountable differences. Palestinians and Jews also have much to gain from peaceful coexistence.
It’s very easy to approach a character like that – a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds – and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.
The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history – on our behalf.
A lot of people in America don’t know me, and that’s something I have to overcome.
It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil – I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that’s how our little world works, but it just isn’t so.
It’s a difficult thing to overcome, but I’ve been quite fortunate. I haven’t been out of work, literally, since ‘M*A*S*H’ went out of production.
For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That’s the area I excel in. That’s where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
