684 Quotes About Overcoming

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

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

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.

I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing how they overcome it and be the best they can.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.