Santiago Calatrava

Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.

Spanish Architect

Radhanath Swami

When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

American Clergyman

Ernest Renan

Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.

French Philosopher

Theodor Herzl

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

Hungarian Journalist

Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

English Writer

Mahatma Gandhi

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Indian Leader

Mark Manson

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.

American Author

John Dryden

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

English Poet

Tony Robbins

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

American Speaker

Albert Camus

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Use 'surmount' to describe overcoming personal challenges or limitations.

Internal Triumph

'Surmount' is not used for physical barriers, but for figurative ones, like emotional or intellectual hurdles.

Not Physical

Using 'surmount' suggests significant effort was needed to overcome the issue.

Implying Effort

When describing objects, 'surmount' means something is physically on top of another.

Physical Placement

'Surmount' suggests something is not just on top, but also represents a pinnacle or high point.

Metaphorical Height

Use 'surmount' to enhance imagery, suggesting prominence or importance of the object above.

Visual Imagery

 from accidents, hunger and exhaustion. The wall was formidable but not invincible. Both Genghis and his son Khublai Khan managed to surmount the wall during the Mongol invasion of the 13th Century.

What makes the Great...

 described the hunt for gravitational waves as He said, "The technical difficulties to be surmounted in constructing such detectors are enormous. But physicists are ingenious,

What the discovery of...

 that they appeared to be doing and had he surmounted the second step absolutely nothing would have kept George Mallory from walking to the summit of Everest