Top 110 Overtake Quotes & Sayings

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

KERS definitely helps on a straight when you want to overtake somebody who doesn't have the system.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

You always have to continue working, because everybody is. Once you stop, the others will overtake you.

Greed can overtake smart.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.

If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.

We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current plateaus and climb to higher ground.

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

These days it is not very easy to overtake in Formula One, the cars have great aerodynamic downforce. When you are behind a car, you lose downforce.

I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing.

When you're on set with Ed Asner or Melissa Peterman, you start to sort of exist in a different realm sometimes. You try not to let that get in your head, and you try not to let that overtake you.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll overtake us, and we'll self-destruct.

We wrestle with our own opponents on a daily basis. These challengers can come in numerous forms whether it be a physical challenge, emotional, or even relational issues that can overtake us. No matter what opponent we are wrestling against we can be UNSTOPPABLE.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.

A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.

He who follows another will never overtake him

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

It's always this thing about being the big brother and the little brother coming to try to overtake the big brother. That always happens in families and in clubs - the young player hoping to take the old player's position - and City are hoping to overtake United. I don't think they'll ever be able to, though.

Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

I'd say the best scents are ones that don't overtake a room. I love things that remind me of the outdoors and home.

Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

Of course, I want to try and overtake the record of goals scored in European cups with the Rossoneri shirt.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.

Old habits die hard, and if you're not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you're trying to become.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.

Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

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.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

If anyone has to overtake me, I'm glad that it is Messi.

The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.

You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.

The biggest chance to overtake is in the first two laps of a race. Later on will always be more difficult.

It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you're talking about is work, and you never leave that space.

I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Formula One is a mind game, no question. You have to think so hard sometimes smoke comes out your ears! And if you don't keep your head in gear the car will overtake you

You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

I think he'll reach 1000 goals, but he'll never overtake my total. (on 40-year old Romario)

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.