Top 1200 Overcoming Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.

We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

I am proud of myself for overcoming adversity.

It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it is true that we are daily producing more evil and, with it, an ocean of suffering for millions that is absolutely avoidable. When one day the ignorance arising from childhood repression is eliminated and humanity has awakened, an end can be put to this production of evil.

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.

Russia is an interesting place because they're extremely evil but they're not that good at implementing their evil.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

I don't ever remember overcoming adversities.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.

This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, "Give up what is evil and give up what is good." What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

Vincenzo is a delightfully-refreshing dark hero who repays evil for evil.

In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

All my life, I believe in overcoming challenges.

We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

We are taught to attack the forces of evil and not those doing evil. That is what we are trained in.

The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

I'm not really that sick of Evil Dead. I can trace all roots back to The Evil Dead movies, so I have nothing against them. It's just that I've done more non-Evil Dead stuff; it's not the only thing I've done. There are some actors who have done a cult movie and they are forever going to be the Policeman #2 in Plan 9 From Outer Space.

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.

Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may have long range effects, prompting the reader intuitively, subconsciously, to do evil while thinking they're doing good.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.