"Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal"
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"A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them."
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"Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome."
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"Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact."
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"There's nothing that you can't overcome with God on your side."
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"Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."
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"The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful."
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"It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity."
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"Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow."
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"Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it."
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"If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light."
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"The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid."
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"When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going."
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"No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence."
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"You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him."
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"Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today."
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"He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger."
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"I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm."
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"The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom."
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"How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror."
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