“ Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
- 196
“ When you're inundated with work and you feel completely overwhelmed, the best way to gain time is to add balance. ”
- Julie Morgenstern- Copy
- 3.2K
“ German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
- 1.4K
“ This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. ”
- Sitting Bull- Copy
- 453
“ It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. ”
- Horace Walpole- Copy
- 259
“ 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. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
- 3K
“ I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it? ”
- Chris Martin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer. ”
- Katharine Whitehorn- Copy
- 1.5K
“ By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
- 589
“ Enlightenment must come little by little, otherwise it would overwhelm. ”
- Idries Shah- Copy
- 180
“ Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth. ”
- Ben Jonson- Copy
- 489
“ It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them. ”
- Barbara Ward- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success. ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
- 523
“ 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. ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
- 558
“ I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored. ”
- Kim Elizabeth- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message. ”
- David Ben Gurion- Copy
- 1K
“ Call it womb awe or even womb worship but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence. ”
- Sam Keen- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The established churches or religious organizations in this country are generally declining, overwhelmed by secular thoughts, secular culture. But the Unification Church is different; we don't feel any decline of spirit in our movement. We are pioneers; we are like a volcano erupting. ”
- Sun Myung Moon- Copy
- 269
“ It's very discouraging to know that in the criminal justice system the people in control don't have time - many times they don't have any information, many times they're overwhelmed by the politics of something, like the death penalty, to seriously want to reform a criminal justice system that they have some control over. ”
- Burke Marshall- Copy
- 800
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