Overcoming Quotes

Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.

La Rochefoucauld

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

Every mile is two in winter.

George Herbert

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Nikita Khrushchev

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Mark Twain

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for

Robert Browning

The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Bhagavad Gita

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

Jerry Coleman

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.

Jack Nicklaus

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

Dante Alighieri

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

Barbara Bush

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Oscar Wilde

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Morris Adler

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Langbridge Morgan