Overcome Quotes

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

~ John Mellencamp

There is no hope unmingled with fear and no fear unmingled with hope.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.

~ Dr. Robert Jarvik

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. Some fear them but they fear everyone.

~ Jean Pierre Camus

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.

~ Edmund Burke

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Bertrand Russell

Who is more foolish the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

~ Maurice Freehill

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

~ H. L. Mencken

Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.

~ Jeraldine Saunders

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

~ Nancy Astor

Fear can be headier than whiskey once man has acquired a taste for it.

~ Donald Dowes

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.

~ Elmer Davis

Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

~ Virgil

In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.

~ David A. Bednar

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

~ Woody Harrelson

Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.

~ Bernard Williams

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

~ Uta Hagen

The Savior isn't our last chance He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean.

~ Sheri L. Dew

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

~ Carl Jung

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

~ W. Clement Stone

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.

~ Chaz Bono

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

~ Plautus

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

~ André Gide

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

~ Danny Meyer

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

~ Booker T. Washington

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

~ Woodrow Wilson