Famous quotes containing the word surmount:
“He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is a part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate; to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)