Overcome

Famous quotes containing the word overcome:

“How much must I overcome before I triumph?”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

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

“We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler—displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag. Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.”
—Faye J. Crosby (20th century)