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"Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome."
"For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that."
"That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got."
"To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone."
"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."
"I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation."
"Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing was carrying on as before. He had faced his shortcomings and overcome them and so the real business of walking was happening only now."
"A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind."
"In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together."
"Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome."
"The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom."
"It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome."
"Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to."
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action."
"I need to remember to overcome."
"One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree."
"For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them."
"I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them."
"Video can seem like just another challenge to overcome, but I see a major increase in my business and brand awareness, all from the power of video."
"Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome"
