Overcomes Quotes

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

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.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.