Top Overcome Quotes
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
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
Robert Towne
The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
Jack Brymer
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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 
86% of people like this quote
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz
77% of people like this quote
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
Robert Towne
77% of people like this quote
The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
Jack Brymer
72% of people like this quote
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
63% of people like this quote
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
Katherine Graham
62% of people like this quote
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Rosa Parks
60% of people like this quote
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dorothy Height
59% of people like this quote
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
Titus Maccius Plautus
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