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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle 
Overcome obstacles - grow and bloom anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm
that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts
and their conflagration
which are needed to produce
valuable and lasting results.
- Carl Jung
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
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
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions
has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung
We fear the unknown,
perhaps more than we fear anything else,
and yet we are, at heart, adventurers.
We seek to expand our realm of knowledge and dominion.
Perhaps we are attempting to overcome and crush the unknown,
but our duel with the unknown is such a one-sided clash
that we must know in our hearts
that our adventure is no more than a child's game.
Perhaps we hope that the unknown
is like the darkness of a cave
and that the brief light of our adventurer's candle
can illuminate the entire cave.
Nonetheless, the path of the adventurer
is a path of joy, while the way of fear is one of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
I live with enthusiasm, and give thanks for my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.
- Ralph Archbold
Today is life - the only life you are sure of.
Make the most of today. Get interested in something.
Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby.
Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you.
Live today with gusto.
- Dale Carnegie
A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
I give thanks for both my bloom and my thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Today, I Dance Lightly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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