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«A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.»
Author: Christopher Reeve
(
Activist,
Actor,
Film Director)
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Keywords:
endure,
finds,
hero,
individual,
Obstacles,
ordinary,
overwhelm,
overwhelming,
overwhelms,
persevere,
persevered,
perseveres,
persevering,
spite,
strength
«Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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About:
Success
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Keywords:
accomplish,
against,
Against All Odds,
and the,
at odds,
courage,
encountered,
is not,
maintained,
measured,
measure up,
odds,
opposition,
oppositions,
overwhelm,
overwhelming,
overwhelms,
struggle,
success,
The opposition
«There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.»
Author: Washington Irving
(
Writer)
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About:
Communication,
Love
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Keywords:
are,
but,
eloquently,
grief,
is a,
mark,
More,
overwhelm,
overwhelming,
overwhelms,
power,
powered,
power i,
Power of Love,
sacredness,
speak,
speaking in,
speaks in,
speak up,
take ten,
tearing,
tears,
tear up,
ten,
ten thousand,
Than,
there,
there is,
they,
The Mark,
The Mark of,
The Powers That Be,
The Power and the,
The Power Of Love,
thousand,
tongued,
tongues,
tore,
to the power,
unspeakable,
weakness
«There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.»
«The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
ahead,
and then,
at the start,
breaking,
Breaking up,
break into,
break with,
complex,
complexes,
first,
First Ones,
getting,
Getting started,
get started,
into,
manageable,
one,
overwhelm,
overwhelming,
overwhelms,
secret,
small,
started,
starting,
start up,
tasked,
tasking,
tasks,
then,
the first,
The Secret
«I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(
President)
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About:
Conviction,
Wisdom
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Keywords:
About me,
conviction,
driven,
drive in,
from nowhere,
had,
insufficient,
knees,
My own,
nowhere,
overwhelm,
overwhelming,
overwhelms,
seemed,
times,
time of day,
wisdom
«If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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Keywords:
approach,
challenge,
defect,
failure,
immediately,
modifies,
modify,
modifying,
overwhelm,
overwhelmed,
overwhelms,
personality,
problem,
rather
«The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
frightened,
had,
high,
highs,
individual,
keep,
loneliest,
lonely,
often,
overwhelm,
overwhelmed,
overwhelms,
owning,
pay,
pay for,
price,
priced,
pricing,
privilege,
struggle,
tribe,
try
«It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.»
Author: Lord Byron
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Keywords:
armada,
armadas,
conquers,
dash,
dashing,
nevertheless,
one by one,
overwhelms,
preserved,
The Armada,
The Rock,
waves
«Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
apparently,
enemy,
force,
might,
overwhelm,
overwhelming,
overwhelms,
The Enemy,
yield,
yield up