110 Surmount Quotes

Following is our list of surmount quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about something to be proud of.

Quick Jump To

Famous Surmount Quotes

Rise above oneself and grasp the world. - Archimedes

Rise above oneself and grasp the world. — Archimedes

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself. — Hafez

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory. — Mao Zedong

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter. — Ralph Bunche

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself. — Jim Whittaker

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. — Epicurus

Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles. - Stephen Curry

Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles. — Stephen Curry

One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . — George Leigh Mallory

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. — Abigail Adams

The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold. — Danish Proverbs

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — Abdul Kalam

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains. — Marvin J. Ashton

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Short Surmount Quotes

  • Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. — Mark Manson
  • Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle. — Daisaku Ikeda
  • It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. — Louis Kossuth
  • He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — John Dryden
  • There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. — Albert Camus
  • Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them. — Rick Springfield
  • Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character. — Tony Robbins
  • It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude. — Hannah Webster Foster
  • A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time. — Mason Cooley
  • God will never allow a challenge that will surmount us; we are always greater than our challenges. — T. B. Joshua

Surmount Image Quotes

Surmount Quotes

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles? — Eliphas Levi

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. — Epictetus

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them. — Patrick Henry

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live. — Paul Celan

I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone. — Cornell Woolrich

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving. — Napoleon Hill

Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason's house. — Marguerite Porete

Something To Be Proud Of Quotes

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in. — Immortal Technique

Something that i’m really proud of myself for is my ability to be able to digest food. — Jake Paul

Here in Australia, we’re fortunate enough to have one of the richest and oldest continuing cultures in the world. This is something we should all be proud of and celebrate. — Aboriginal proverbs

Never give up, no matter what may set you back, and know that at the end of the road, you’re going to have something that you can be proud of. — Markiplier

I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards. — Khloe Kardashian

I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of. — Glennon Melton

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you. — Abigail Tarttelin

We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace. — Cheech Marin

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people. — Christian Bale

People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust. — Howard Schultz

Ways To Describe Quotes

The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable. - Kendrick Lamar

The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable. — Kendrick Lamar

There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. — Barack Obama

People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down. — Esther Perel

Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily. — Chris Voss

It is hard to describe how much you learn by actually doing — by carefully considering all factors, making a decision, and then taking responsibility for the outcome. Unlocks wisdom that cannot be arrived at any other way. — Greg Brockman

Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played. — David Crosby

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me. — Jennifer Garner

The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations. — Jennifer Gilmore

You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids. — Harvey Weinstein

The best way to describe our live show is that it's like hanging out with your best friends from TV for a night. — James Murray

How Sweet Life Is Quotes

How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended. — George Whitefield

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive. — George Leonard

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. — James A. Baldwin

O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom. — Buddha

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be. — Gwen Stefani

When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' It started as my hobby, and then I started traveling and learning how to play different instruments, and then it just kind of became my life. — Austin Mahone

I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that? — Wendy Mass

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life. — Menander

The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self. — Marianne Williamson

When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest. — Douglas Coupland

People Writing About Surmount

Name Quotes Likes
Read quotes by Archimedes

Archimedes
quotes on math

25 1496
Read quotes by Hafez

Hafez
quotes on love, friendship and life

127 12699
Read quotes by Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong
quotes on youth, war and education

272 2979
Read quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
quotes on love

1772 14221
Read quotes by Ralph Bunche

Ralph Bunche
quotes on education, slavery and leadership

16 341
Read quotes by Epicurus

Epicurus
quotes on happiness, pleasure and friendship

172 4454

More Surmount Quotes

My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE. — Sylvia Pankhurst

Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth. — Madeleine Albright

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery? — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations. — Adam Smith

Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart. — B.K.S. Iyengar

All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount. — Samuel Smiles

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned. — Samuel Johnson

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances. — Edward McKendree Bounds

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister. — Sigmund Freud

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap. — Paul Chambers

...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured. — Greg Mortenson

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from. — Alan Arkin

Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe. — Albert Schweitzer

I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. — Abigail Adams

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty. — Joseph Joubert

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume. — Charles Caleb Colton

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles. — James Sharp

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. — Charlotte Dacre

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics. — Sam Harris

In Conclusion

Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of surmount quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about surmount to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.

Citation

Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of surmount quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.

Embed HTML Link

Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage