He that endures is not overcome. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Dangers are overcome with dangers. [ Proverb ]
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder? [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Perseverance will overcome a diffident manner. [ P. Holland ]
One danger is seldom overcome without another. [ Proverb ]
I live.
But live to die: and living, see no thing
To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,
A loathsome and yet all invincible
Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I
Despise myself, yet cannot overcome -
And so I live. [ Byron ]
To overcome pleasure, is the greatest pleasure. [ Proverb ]
Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [ Seneca ]
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. [ St. Paul ]
Who overcomes by force, Hath overcome but half his foe. [ Milton ]
Patience and perseverance overcome the greatest difficulties. [ Clarissa ]
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. [ Balzac ]
By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. [ Proverb ]
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. [ Queen Elizabeth ]
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
He knows that the man is overcome ingloriously who is overcome without danger. [ Seneca ]
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The want of belief is a defect which ought to be concealed where it cannot be overcome. [ Swift ]
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion. [ C. N. Bovee ]
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as the having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. [ Alexander Pope ]
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [ Juvenal ]
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. [ Emerson ]
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. [ Seneca ]
The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable.
If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger. [ Quarles ]
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. [ Charron ]
Rely on principles; walk erect and free, not trusting to bulk of body, like a wrestler, for one should not be unconquerable in the sense that an ass is. Who then is unconquerable? He whom the inevitable cannot overcome. [ Epictetus ]
It is not ease, but effort - not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. [ Samuel Smiles ]
That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. [ Colton ]
The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. [ Bayne ]