Top 75 Overcoming Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Overcoming Quotes from famous people such as Jeremy Grantham, Reggie Miller, Rebecca De Mornay, Kate Forsyth, William James, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it’s overcoming the facts.
Jeremy Grantham
Overcoming my sister’s shadow was the biggest thing I ever tried to do.
Reggie Miller
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.
Rebecca De Mornay
Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
Kate Forsyth
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Haile Selassie
All my life, I believe in overcoming challenges.
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For me, it’s not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It’s interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It’s about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
Heather Mills
I graduated in biology by overcoming an incredibly impossible science workload in college. The knowledge does nothing for me, but knowing I achieved that makes me feel like I can achieve anything because those science classes in biology are just impossible.
Frank Vogel
There’s an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.
John Grant
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
John Lithgow
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.
Ben Stiller
We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions’ mind-set. And champions’ mind-set isn’t always about winning. It’s about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversity.
Travis Kalanick
I am proud of myself for overcoming adversity.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.
Steve Young
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.
Adam Rapp
A new era doesn’t come from nothing. New thoughts, values and methods will be established after overcoming various hurdles on the way.
Park Won-soon
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
Seth Godin
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain’s long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
Vince Cable
I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.
Anderson Silva
After ‘Muriel’s Wedding,’ I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.
Toni Collette
God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God’s work to save the world.
Adam Hamilton
Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.
Tommy Morrison
The highs in my career have been overcoming the problems and smiling at them and getting on.
Rubens Barrichello
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.
Ezra Furman
Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.
Susan Lucci
‘Looper’ is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It’s about finding love in the third act of your life. It’s about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.
Jason Reitman
Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.
Lionel Shriver
You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
Michelle Obama
It’s easy to walk away from risk, and you don’t actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can’t manage your way out of.
Maurice Flanagan
Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
Laura Wilkinson
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
Bono
Half of acting is you’re very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.
Travis Fimmel
I don’t have, you know, an ‘overcoming addiction’ story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven’t overcome that. I don’t have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.
Brad Paisley
If I am aware of my own limitations, then I can work towards overcoming them.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
The biggest challenge was becoming a leader and taking our team to the highest level. Feeling the personal responsibility to take the team to the next level. Overcoming fear of inadequacy and never getting down on yourself or doubting who you are.
David Robinson
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It’s an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
Kathleen Battle
If you look at my career it has always been about overcoming difficulties in different places.
Paulinho
Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.
Ezra Taft Benson
I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Bill Bradley
We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.
Joe Slovo
Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.
John Mott
What has truly impeded ESPN from overcoming its financial mistakes and inability to adapt to technological advances? The decadelong culture war ESPN lost to Deadspin, a snarky, politically progressive sports blog launched by Gawker’s Nick Denton in 2005.
Jason Whitlock
Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.
David Goggins
Overcoming challenges by learning something in a game is a very rewarding feeling, and that’s what I wanted to prioritise in ‘Dark Souls’ and ‘Demon’s Souls.’
Hidetaka Miyazaki
The German car industry has a clear vision of the necessity of stability in the continent that goes beyond selling cars. For Germany, the economy is an instrument in a much wider issue of stability in continental Europe and overcoming the mistakes of the past.
Frans Timmermans
You didn’t just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany… Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.
Helmut Kohl
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn’t grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it’s worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.
Regina Brett
We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.
Marta