Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome.
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
Fame overcomes everything.
I can't say enough about this team's heart and resiliency to keep overcoming adversity. They have that one intangible that wins basketball games.
Part of the journey is overcoming obstacles, and this was one I thought mentally and physically we were prepared for. I guess I'd say that Duke's experience in being in these types of games with experienced guys came through.
All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.
All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.