Overcome

Famous quotes containing the word overcome:

“They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“My tendency to nervousness in my younger days, in view of the fact of a number of near relatives on both my father’s and mother’s side of the house having become insane, gave some serious uneasiness. I made up my mind to overcome it.... In the cross-examination of witnesses before a crowded court-house ... I soon found I could control myself even in the worst of testing cases. Finally, in battle.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)