There's a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what's wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.
I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.