Quotes about Overcoming

You can start out with nothing, and out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.     Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith; former drug enthusiast turned spiritual enthusiast turned inspirational badass

We're so deeply wrapped up in our stories—I don't have the money, I'm not good enough, I can't quit my job, I'm lazy, I have bad hair—trudging through life with our heads down, clinging to our false beliefs like lifeboats full of doo-doo, that we prevent ourselves from seeing the literally infinite sea of possibilities and opportunities surrounding us at every single moment.

What would Heracles have been if he had said, How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men? What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

All depression is fear-based.

I was determined to return to Bombay on two legs and not on crutches and dance again.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

The ultimate dragon is within you. It is your ego clamping you down.

Without a lot of college film, a lot of people had written me off already. When the Patriots called, I was pretty happy.

At the end of the day, the enemy is going to be sorry he ever messed with you. You're about to become his worst nightmare a million times over. He thought he could wear you down, sure that after a while you'd give up without much of a fight. Well, just wait till he encounters the fight of God's Spirit in you. Because . . . This. Means. War.