Overcoming Quotes

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

Dorothea Kent

All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't.

Bruce Jenner

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Roberts Buxton

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Dr. Robert Schuller

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

Yoshida Kenko

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Walter Benjamin

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

La Rochefoucauld

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

Hfiz

The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.

Maitri Upanishads

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

Francois Arouet